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| Cain Leadeth Abel to Death, c. 1896-1902, James Tissot. Jewish Museum |
'Whoever saves a life saves the world' emanates
from the Judaic tradition of the sacredness of
life, an all-encompassing parable whose clear
purpose was to enshrine in human consciousness
the imperative of saving, not taking lives, that
life itself, the existence of the mind, the soul and
the body represents a miracle bestowed by a higher
order, one that demands of its progeny due respect
and diligence in preserving life. And in the Qur'an
the lesson 'And whoever saves a life it is as though
he had saved the lives of all mankind' yet Islamic
clerics thunder from their pulpits to their Friday
audiences that perfidious Jews must be slaughtered.
Islamist fanatics commit fervently to the slaughter
of Jews, no exception made to age and gender an orgy
of death framed as a gift to Allah. The ancient Judaic
tradition, religion, prophets and ancestral homelands
co-opted by the faithful of a successor religion claiming
to represent the Heavenly Spirit's final message to
humankind. Even as piety proclaims its devotion to
succoring human life it sanctimoniously eliminates
those of Jews for whom there is no compassion.
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