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...weeks that British engineer Ken Bigley was held captive in Iraq, I prayed that the gang that held him would listen to the voice of their conscience, even if that voice had become just a whisper, and spare Bigley??€™s life. But my prayers weren’t answered...
...felt that sinking feeling in my stomach when I read the news of Bigley??€™s death. I was terribly sad—and I was angry. I was angry at the United States for wreaking enough havoc in Iraq to cause already-mad men to be provoked into mad acts of murder. But mostly, I was angry at the killers. First and foremost because they killed an innocent man. But also because the killers are Muslim, and I’m Muslim. And by committing their heinous act they fueled the belief that my religion, Islam, somehow encourages...
...gods to men. Belief in tawhid negates the legitimacy of these false gods. And a true believer in tawhid is liberated from slavery to his passions. The act of slicing off a man’s head and then holding it up in front of a video camera, as Bigley??€™s killers did, requires a great amount of anger, hatred, perhaps pride and most likely a great deal of other emotions. In succumbing to their passions, Bigley??€™s killers made themselves slaves of these illegitimate gods and therefore violated the principle of tawhid...
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