[Roy Tucker]

That's all well and good, but one group of believers wants to kill all us non-believers. Your message will wash in the West but not with the Islamic fundamentalists. They would listen to you claim that we are all God's children and then slit your throat because we are descendants of pigs and apes as it says in the Koran.

Your message works fine as long as we defend ourselves.

PS I am one Republican who,while no fan of Bill Clinton, don't view him as the worst President in American history. That would go to Jimmy Carter. And my Dad, who is a Cold War Democrat certainly would not rate Clinton as the greatest American president. I find your analogy well-meaning but faulty. The fault line between Muslims and Christians is far greater and more serious than partisan splits in the US.

[Luis Gonzalez]

You completely missed the point.

Degrees of something are always arguable, but the point I was making was about perception. Even your argument that some people see Carter as a worse president than Clinton helps me prove my next point.

Not all Muslims want to kill all non-Muslims...we would be having a much larger, world encompassing problem if that were the case.

The reason that is, is because this is far from being a religious conflict; religion is being used to incite passions.

This is a geopolitical issue, completely emanating from a very specific region of the world, and fought by shadow armies of assassins.

This isn't about religion, this is about an old way of life (Islam in the Middle East), and the encroachment of Western culture endangering the old power structures.