I was asked by a coworker today whether Fed Ex would pay for late deliveries due to the tragedy on Tuesday...(People have been asking me since yesterday if they can send next-day-air packages...like somehow UPS and Fed Ex were immune to the air ban.) Anyway, I answered, "I'm not sure whether this would be something they would pay for out of concern for their customers or if this falls under an Act of God sort of clause..."
"Or and act of Allah?" the coworker smirked. I'm sure he thought he was funny...
I left the office rather abrubtly.
Which brings me to something I want to make very very clear...
Worshipping a god, any god, is a personal pact between a person and the deity/ies they have chosen. This is a very different thing than murdering people in the name of a deity. (And I must point out that no one has claimed responsibility for the attack, and no one has claimed that it was in fact a jihad. That may change as time goes by but right now these are the facts of the matter.) Any action done by a worshipper (or an agnostic or an atheish)
is the responsibility of that person or persons...this is not Allah's gig, it's not what Mohammed would have wanted for anyone. Allah would not have wanted to be offered the blood of innocent people in his name.
"Did the gods choose to have human flesh pressed to their lips instead of food and milk? Do not the gods have cows?? Do not the gods have cooks?"
--a mangled quote from Sheri S Tepper, "The Gate to Women's Country"
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