Replies

What they need is a blunt reminder that the real desecration of Islam is not what some interrogator in Guantanamo might have done to the Koran. It is what totalitarian Muslim zealots have been doing to innocent human beings in the name of Islam. It is 9/11 and Beslan and Bali and Daniel Pearl and the USS Cole. It is trains in Madrid and schoolbuses in Israel and an ''insurgency" in Iraq that slaughters Muslims as they pray and vote and line up for work. It is Hamas and Al Qaeda and sermons filled with infidel-hatred and exhortations to ''martyrdom."

Okay, one more time for those of you who don't get it: What the terrorists do is NOT a "desecration" of islime....IT IS THE CULT'S DOCTRINE! Islime doesn't follow God's Ten Commandments, and especially not the Fourth Commandment: "You will not commit murder." Islime's commandment is "You will kill all who are not muslime."

In short, a bad Christian or a bad Jew kills, but a good follower of the pedophile false prophet kills. Let's quit saying that these barbarians have "hijacked" or "desecrated" their *ahem* "religion" when in all reality they're behaving IN EXACT COMPLIANCE with its tenets!!!

Otherwise, Jacoby's article was great.

I've never seen a version of the Ten Commandments which has the commandment against murder as #4. The reckoning followed by Catholics and some others has "Thou shalt not kill" as the 5th commandment; most Protestants have it as the 6th.

The Septuagint version of Exodus has "Thou shalt not murder" (ou phoneuseis) in the 8th spot, after "Thou shalt not steal" (20:15).