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...scholars have long believed it is proper for Muslims to serve in a military force fighting other Muslims so long as they remain free to practice their faith. "If the leadership says another country is a threat, then the Muslim has the obligation to defend his country," says John Voll, an Islamic historian at Georgetown University, "... even if the other country is Islamic." But concerned over "the hatred that could come out," Representative Chet Edwards, a Texas Democrat whose district is near Fort Hood, told TIME he and Representative Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota and the lone Muslim...
...revelation, and the meaning [to Christians] of that revelation unfolds in the events of his life as described in the Gospels," writes comparative religion expert F.E. Peters in his book The Monotheists, in Islam the Koran "is the revelation." To say, as Georgetown University Islam expert John Voll does, that Newsweek's account portrayed Americans "flushing God down the toilet" might seem extreme. But Voll suggests that a sense of the offense involved can be extrapolated from pious Christians' horror at artist Andres Serrano's 1987 Piss Christ, a photograph of a plastic crucifix immersed in urine...
...relatives, Islam honors all humanity--not just believers--as created by God, who is referred to as "the compassionate and merciful." The Judeo-Christian respect for the widow and the orphan is amplified by the fact that the Prophet Muhammad was himself an orphan, notes Georgetown's John O. Voll. And for all the conflict depicted in the Koran, its recognition of pluralism is embodied in a verse that explains that God created humans different from one another so that they can learn from one another...
...VOLL-2nd at Ivy Champs...
...VOLL. vs. Roger Wms., late...