For years I have been driving on Brentwood Stair Road on my way to Village Creek Natural Historic Area. I have seen the building you see in the picture, set a couple hundred feet north of the road, a short distance east of the Chesapeake Energy drilling site and poison water pond I mentioned a couple days ago.In all the years of driving by this building I had not noticed that it is a church, despite the cross on top of the roof. And I had not noticed the signage on the building identifying the church as "Arabic Christian Fellowship--A Christian Life Center."
It impresses me that there are enough Arab Christians in east Fort Worth to have a big church. Now some people erroneously think all Arabs are Muslim. There is an Iraqi Christian sect. I don't know how well they get along with the Sunnis and the Shiites.
Due to the recent Muslim terrorist act at Fort Hood there has been a lot of "all Muslims are not evil" type rhetoric. But, I can't help but notice that when a Muslim does a bad deed, in the name of Allah, there does not seem to be any outcry from the good Muslims denouncing what the bad Muslim did. At least, not that I've seen or heard.
The Muslim religion is fragmented into sects, some of whom hate each other. Does a sect, like the Sunnis have a pope-like leader? If so, why does the Sunni pope not tell his people that it is wrong to murder a Shiite girl because she had a Sunni boyfriend? Has there been a Muslim leader who says Osama bin Laden is a bad man?
Then again, the Christians have quite a history of intolerance too. I recollect there was a time when the Protestants and Catholics in Ireland were busy killing each other. That seems to have stopped. Did the Pope tell them to knock it off?How come all the good Muslims don't insist that the radical Islamists be banned, kicked out of the mosques? Why isn't all that suicide bombing those people seem to enjoy so much not loudly denounced by the leaders of Islam?
I'm really starting to think that if the Muslims do not start behaving in a more civilized manner that maybe it is time to go Medieval on them. Whatever that means.
It's all very perplexing. I would be embarrassed about my religion if I were a good Muslim.
