I was searching in the Koran this week for ANY text at all that instructed Muslims to be peaceful, not hurt other people, love their neighbor, anything. I couldn't find one quote, yet these Official Muslim Scholars, and so many others, say that those that are bombing and terrorising the public are not being good Muslims. I challenge anyone to show me a quote from Islam's sacred record that instructs Muslims to not kill people. I have read, however, that they are specifically instructed to lie to those who are not Muslims. So, to my way of thinking, this article is worthless. And George Bush's statement that "Islam is the religion of peace" is a bald-faced lie.
For the Koran is like a pick-and-mix selection. If you want peace, you can find peaceable verses. If you want war, you can find bellicose verses. You can find verses which permit only defensive jihad, or you can find verses to justify offensive jihad.
You can find what ever you look for in the Koran. You can certainly be a terrorist and a Muslim, for sure.
...but nothing excuses: So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
This religion used to be peaceful. They use to be a bunch of free thinking intellectuals until Saudi Wahhabism took over the region. Islam is a religion filled with scared chickens now.
Here's what a Egyptian intellectual thinks about Wahhabism.
http://www.heggy.org/