Since the thread has taken a turn in this direction, I’ll say that Zaki has a good point. I was horrified when we were in Israel and Palestine in November 2007. Christians and Muslims were treated like they were far less than human. Our Christian tour guide was constantly harrassed at the checkpoints that we went through, along with our Muslim driver. It’s very easy to sit in the US and say that Israel is our ally and they’re trying to stop terrorism, but they have created a situation in the West Bank and Gaza where terrorism is bound to flourish. When you treat every single human being in a group like a rodent that needs to be exterminated, you are going to have repercussions (besides the fact that it’s evil!). People are going to rise up and fight back for their very lives. It’s very hard to imagine when we’re safe and comfortable in our first world countries.
On the original thread, I remember seeing a special on CNN about Muslim weddings and the women that were being married didn’t attend them. Thus it would make sense that those little girls weren’t the ones who were being married off (or they wouldn’t be there).
And TristanCross, I don’t think God rejoices when anyone is murdered, regardless of nitpicking a random Bible verse and trying to apply it to a nonrelevent situation.