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[quote]It cannot be termed as Divine scourge for several reasons.

1) In all cases of Divine scourge, the Prophet sounds the warning first. In this case there was obviously no prophet and no warning either.

2) The Muslims of Indonesia have the correct belief set, which is very important. Is it that they are more vile than the libertarians of Amsterdam and San Fransisco, I think not!

3) If we started terming such calamities as Divine scourge, then perhaps we should start including all accidents under this category, including war.

After all the Koran speaks of subjugation of nations by other evil nations. Will we consider Hitler as God's scourge on the European Jews. I think not!

Because how can we have the concept of punishment of son (European Jews) for the sins of the father (Jews at time of Moses/Muhammad (pbuh). This idea reeks of the concept of original sin, which is alien to Islam.

4) By the same argument Palestinians would be considered as punished for their sins. Does this not sound a bell?

5) Anyone who believes that this was God's scourge believes in a capricious and sadist and unjust God  (because there was no warning to those who believe in One God and Islam, and that sex traders - the real villians are trying to thrive on orphans owing to the tragedy).

Thus anyone believing in such a theory, believes in an unjust God, which I would consider as BLASPHEMY![/quote]

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