@Muhammad Ali

[Cha]

NBC Nightly News
✔ ?@NBCNightlyNews
@MuhammadAli: "I am a Muslim and there is nothing Islamic about killing innocent people" http://nbcnews.to/1RaUJ4O
1:48 PM - 9 Dec 2015
568 568 Retweets 468 468 likes

http://theobamadiary.com/2015/12/09/chat-away-729/

[Cha]

1. Kick for Muhammad Ali speaking the truth!

[Alkene]

2. ...

[Cha]

3. Muhammad Ali~

Thank you, Alkene

[malaise]

4. One of the loves of my life

Well said!

[Cha]

5. Muhammad Ali~

[brer cat]

6. He is a great man,

and I am glad he is speaking out and speaking up for Muslims. He may be frail these days, but he can still sting like a bee.

Thanks for the thread, Cha. We need to counter the bigots at every opportunity.

[Cha]

7. Muhammad Ali is frail but he still can think quite well, brer, to speak out like this. thank

Goodness!

I know what you mean about countering the bigots.. I see graphics like this and I just want to post them. Not even looking for them.. they're just there.

[ladyVet]

8. Well stated, Mr. Ali.

Between this and another quote from the TV this morning, I was reminded about watching him fight back when he was still Cassius Clay. Awesome boxer, and awesome human being.

[Cha]

10. Isn't it though, ladyvet!

[longship]

9. Love that guy. Thank you Cha!

Your passion -- and of course Ali's -- are commendable.

[Cha]

11. I love him, too, longship.. just for saying this alone~

Thank you and for your passion, also.

[Cha]

12. KICK!

[H2O Man]

13. Recommended.

Good to see this being covered on DU and FB. (One of The Champ's daughters sent me some "family photos" from Thanksgiving; Ali appears to be doing well these days.)

[Yorktown]

14. I wish he were right. But some Muslim clerics or Islam analysts disagree with him.

I remember a Muslim cleric who stated that the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris were 'unislamic', but that the Charlie Hebdo drawings themselves were a more serious crime than the shooting.
In Islam, people who blaspheme are enemies of Islam, therefore NOT innocent.
It is stated as such in the Quran, and made perfectly explicit in the hadiths.

As for the Paris attacks of November, Sam Wood did a step-by-step analysis of how to theologically justify them from an islamic perspective: the bystanders paid taxes in France, financing the French Army which was attacking the ISIS 'caliphate' = enemies of Islam = NOT innocent.

So, Ali's sentence, well meaning as it is, carries little weight for literalist Muslims.

[jwirr]

15. Thank you.