Our Hardened Hearts
The thugs of the so-called Islamic State have been executing people for the 'crime' of being homosexual. Of course we members of the Muslim community here in Columbus quickly condemn such brutality.
But I ask: If we believe that homosexuals deserve Hell's eternal fire; are our hearts not also hardened?
ISIS has also been executing people for the 'crime' of wrong-belief. And, we local Muslims are quick to condemn that brutality too.
But again I ask: If we think that all who are not Muslim deserve Hell's eternal fire; are our hearts not also cruel?
If God had not created differences in peoples, how could we know one another?
And if God has created differences, who are we to wish them erased?
- Frank Parmir
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