[Buddha-l] anti-Israel and anti-semitism

[jkirk]

I was writing about having compassion for Muslims, which you seemed to think 
Buddhists didn't have, not about "calling people names."

Rather than referring to those doings as 'wrongdoings,' I would call them 
being cruel. Yes, they including some of the women, don't see it that way. 
In that culture such things are not wrongdoing.  Nevertheless, knowing that 
cruelty results in feeling pain no matter who is getting so-treated, I feel 
compassion for the hurt among them, and also for those who by doing cruel 
acts think they are doing right and in so doing must be developing negative 
inner states in response to their cruelties, adding to their dukkha.

I don't get your question about did I think they were model beings before 
becoming Muslim 'beasts' (your choice of terms). Who said anything about 
'model beings?' You seem to have a problem sticking to the point.
We weren't talking about 'model beings' but about how Buddhists view (in 
this case) Muslims. You suggested that we Buddhists were lacking in good 
intentions when it came to viewing Muslims, and I disagreed.
Pointing out what people do is not "calling them names."

Joanna
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>
>> But when the subject is Islam, suddenly all good intentions appear to 
>> have vanished.
>>
>>> Funny people, those Buddhists!
>>> Erik
>>

>
> My thoughts exactly, but those culprits who are guilty of all these 
> wrongdoings, have been brought up by women and they think (at least some 
> of them some of the time) that they are doing the right thing. Do you 
> really think that they were model human beings and turned into beasts in 
> the Q'uran school? The problem is not only the men, it's the women too. My 
> point is that calling them names is not going to make them any better. 
> Maybe we should more think in terms of setting an example.
> Erik
>
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