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From: bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: the islamic position on suicide
Message-ID: <181@lll-lcc.UUcp>
Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 21:30:21 EST
Article-I.D.: lll-lcc.181
Posted: Sun Mar  9 21:30:21 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Mar-86 01:22:00 EST
References: <5091@alice.uUCp>
Reply-To: bandy@lll-lcc.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals)
Organization: Lab Comp Center, Lawrence Livermore Labs
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Summary: it depends

In article <5091@alice.uUCp> bart@alice.UucP (Bart N. Locanthi) skribis:
>does anyone out there
>know what the official moslem position on suicide is?

Well, I don't know what their position on "I don't like the world,
so I'll just hang out on this tree here until I die." is, but if
there happens to be a Jihad (~holy war) going on (and there always
seems to be, doesn't it?), then if you die while fighting the war
(ie driving a truck loaded with explosives into the airport
terminal), then you're guaranteed a good time in heaven or something
along those lines... It suffices to say that they think that in
terms of ways to die, it's the bee's knees...
-- 
I'm PROUD to be a CARBON-BASED lifeform!

andy beals
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