cowards and the killing of innocents

Like any other religion, Islam forbids the killing of innocent civilians,” Abdullah added.

“The cause cannot be just, neither can it be legitimate. Nothing can make a virtue out of the massacre of innocent men, women and children.

the above are excerpts from our PM, pak lah’s speech on 8 june, which appeared in the star front page headline, entittled ‘muslim must work to regain dignity and honour of islam, says PM’.

indeed. how true the part on killing innocent civilians. that’s why once i blog that suicide killers are cowards, but it seems that quite a number of people disagree, and some said that these suicide killers are usually poor people, who have no other means to ‘kill’ like the americans with their fancy weapons. they said these people were oppressed and couldn’t take it anymore, and at the last resort decided to kill while killing themselves. ‘themselves’ is the only weapon they have. while that may be true, but still no matter what you said, when they killed thus, sure they kill their enemies, or bring up their cause BUT in doing so, they were also killing innocent people. that’s the crux of the matter. nothing can justify the killing of innocents. as pak lah said “islam forbids the killing of innocent civilians…” and “the cause cannot be just, neither can it be legitimate…”

actually when i talked about suicide killers being coward, it has really nothing to do with them killing innocents (though they are killing innocents). i say they are cowards simply because they die when they kill their enemies (like running away). someone once said “to die is easy but to survive, now that’s the hard part.”