Belly whose culture sanctions cutting off hands?

Dear Bazz,

You do realise I hope that Nikolai Sennels wrote
his book about criminal Muslims. Exremists,
fundamentalists. Ordinary people of any religion
are not usually card-carrying extremists, fundamentalists,
or criminals. These guys who are - have distorted views
and their own interpretations of their religion. As all
deranged criminals do.

Islam is one of the world's major relligions.
It claims the allegiance of a fifth of the entire human
population. Many Westerners think often think of Islam
as an Arab religion, most Muslims are not Arabs.

The largest Muslim populations are in Indonesia and India
and there are even large concentrations in China and the
previous Soviet Union.

Islam is the second largest faith in Europe after
Christianity, and it competes with Christianity in many
black African countries.

Don't confuse fundamentalism with what is practiced by
most Muslims who live in different countries, having
different cultures, languages, and so on. The pictures
you see in the media is what is news-worthy rather than
what many Muslims actually practice.

Do you know any Muslims?

I do.

Josephus,

Read the Bible.

Bazz,

The IRA - (Irish Republican Army) they were Christian
and criminal. Look at what they did. Don't forget
the Mafia. And the other criminal gangs (Russian)
(Triads) (White Supremacists) et al. Is their thinking
that of normal people?

And look at Christian Germans - what did they do to the Jews?

The history is full of lunatic fringes fighting and
killing each other of all religions.

F oxy,

You're right ! We shouldn't cut people's hands off. Or enslave people. Or behead them for what we might consider barely crimes at all. Or take more than one partner and slough off a wife when she no longer pleases us. Or marry off our daughters at the first sign of puberty to a rich family. Like all those terrible things from thousands of years ago in the Bible.

Or in the practical application of the Koran today.

So let's condemn all of those outmoded and backward practices forthrightly and with courage, no matter what the consequences might be.

Good on you, Foxy.

Joe

Foxy, I am Christian and a reader of the teachings of Christ, where does the New Testament sanction the Church to cut off the hands of another person?

The pagan Roman Catholic Church may have done that in history, but it is not the law of Christ.