They are not a "few," PMB. The Koran and Hadiths speak proudly of beheading unbelievers, making temporary truces (Hudna) until the faithful are strong enough to kill their "peace" partners, slavery, sexual slavery, Holy War ... Please PMB, don't put a happy face on this murderous rampage against civilization. Who are the terrorists in the world? Who murdered the children of Belsan, of Ma'alot? Who brought down the twin towers? Who beheaded Nick Berg, Daniel Pearl, Armstrong, etc., etc.? Who cheered when the towers came down? Who is conducting the genocide of Darfur? Where is slavery still a strong institution? If someone refuses to admit something is seriously wrong with the civilization which espouses these values, values of murder, theft, slavery, calculated deceit ... then such a person is an apologist for these practices.

What kind of religious "authority" makes "Fatwas" religious legal edits, of death for someone like Salman Rushdi, for writing a book, but is thunderously silent, refuses to issue a single Fatwah against those who murder children, or Osama Bin Laden or Al Zarqawi, for the mass murder of those in the twin towers?

I know, PMB, you are quick to condemn the US for our policies, and accuse us of murder, and suggest that to fight terrorism is as bad as terrorism because all war is killing, but that value structure ignores the difference between the policeman and the murderer who have a shoot out with each other.

These murderers are not madmen who arise out of nothing - they are committed practitioners of their faith, a faith which condones murder. They are Islamic Jihadists, and Jihad is a requirement of that faith. The issue is what constitutes normative values for a given civilization, not whether there are good people in every civilization.



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