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I have to admit that I found the following quote equally tasteless. I was searching with Google for more information on the tragedy and found this on an evangelical Christian website:
The buzzard over Florida in the mackerel sky that stretched from west to east symbolized death in the trajectory of Columbia's return. Israel will not repent until the exit Resurrection of the Church (the Rapture). The Columbia disaster was a preview of the Second Advent for all the world to see. The pride and joy of Israel, the first Israeli astronaut, Col. Ilan Ramon, 48, died, and all Israel will grieve as will all Americans. Ramon was not Jesus Christ, but his death in an orbiting spacecraft is the closest symbol of the return of Jesus Christ that Israel will have before the real thing.
The Columbia disaster was God's Sovereign call on February 1st, for unity and Love (the Love of God). Who knows whether Ramon accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior before he died. No one ever had a better chance. But death is God's victory. God in his Sovereignty alone determines the time, manner, and place of death. It was God's time - the most miraculous demonstration of evangelism in history.
With "friends" like this, I'm not sure Israel needs enemies.
i've seen people cheering in a news site comments page because it's an american space shuttle and ramon is israeli.
may God open their eyes so they can see how horrible that is, cheering on a tragedy.
*applies also to all sorts of tragedy*
The best of people are certainly those of the middle way.
Even the New York Times has picked up on it and so has MSNBC *sighs* Ya muslimeen, when will you learn?
Update: Here's a better story. Usually this kind of observance doesn't make the news so people think that the loudest and most outrageous voices speak for all Muslims.
For those celebrating Ramon's death, there is an apt quote: "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."Luke 23:34
Actually as a Kafur, I'd have to say that I've been very surprised by the tone of, for example, ArabNews. The outpouring of sympathy - for a Jew, yet! - and recognition of a common humanity just doesn't square with what I usually read on many Islamic sites. I was fully expecting to see the same dancing-in-the-streets that occured post 9/11. Sure some crazies celebrated, but not one tenth, no, not one thousandth of what I expected.
Which can either be a sad indictement of how bad things have become between Muslims, Christains and Jews, or reason for hope.
Having read your Istighfirullah remarks, I'd say the latter, definitely. Don't be too hard on the crazies - we're doing that in this world - just try to get them to remember their humanity. Then you can help us restore our own. Deal? You've already helped me forgive the crazies, and treat them with the pity they deserve. Something I thought I'd never be able to do. How terrible to be so consumed with hate! And how easy to become just like them!
Oh, and thanks for this site. After wading through the morass of the "Kill the Crusaders and Sons of Pigs and Dogs" and "All Muslims are Evil" sites, I need a breath of serenity and sanity. I may - I do - disagree with your stand on Palestine and much else, but if everyone were like you, there'd be no problem. And even an unreconstructed Kafur like myself can see you're doing the work of the Compassionate, the Merciful, whatever you choose to call Him.