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Related: About this forumAmid Islamophobia and travel bans, one mosque offers a lesson in caring
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When you walk into the mosques offices, you see a large mural with Arabic writing translated into English: Peace Be Upon You, it says.................
The ADAMS Compassionate Healthcare Network has been open for nearly three years and has treated hundreds of patients, including refugees, day laborers and military veterans.
America is a land of hundreds of hospitals and clinics named for sisters and Christ and crosses and mercy. Now joining them are about 25 free clinics nationwide run primarily by Muslim volunteers, according to the American Muslim Health Professionals task force on health affordability.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/amid-trumps-islamophobia-one-mosque-offers-a-lesson-in-caring/2017/03/06/1d61c370-0276-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?utm_term=.ebd69b248606
Caring for people, doing good works no matter the beliefs of those served. Believers trying to live the message.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)trotsky
(49,533 posts)Neither are all Christians, or all Jews.
There are horrible verses in all of their holy texts. Nasty, terrible ideas that we as human beings should dump into the trashbin of bad things never to repeat. Genocide. Retributive punishment. Confining and isolating women who are menstruating, FFS.
Some believers take those verses seriously - after all, they believe everything in their book is written and/or inspired by their god.
No, they are not all believers in peace. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Neither are all Christians, or all Jews or atheists, or all of any category, because intolerance is a human characteristic.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Because that was clearly the context of my statement - intolerance as commanded by a holy book. I never once said that atheists can't be intolerant, because that wasn't part of the topic at hand. It's just something you always feel you need to bring up. Some people might wonder if that is part of an agenda...
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And you immediately brought up religious intolerance.
So when you speak of:
was this an instance of self-reflection on your part? Given that it was you who introduced the concept of intolerance into this post.
And, as evidence of some small area of commonality here, we are both on record as admitting the obvious: that intolerance is a human characteristic.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)I was addressing a comment another poster made.
But yes, your agenda is noted.