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#9: "Go Maggie".

Dittos!

Here's the kinds of questions I want answered on NATIONAL, and world-wide, prime-time TV:

The first question I would ask of all the "respected" leaders who hold to the Islamic religion / the Islamic world-view is this:

According to your holy book, the Koran, who is an *infidel*?

Allah teaches you in the Koran that infidels are his enemies. Do you view infidels as your personal enemies?

Does Allah teach you in the Koran to love your enemies, like the Christian God does?

We know the Koran teaches you to live and relate to other people in peace and tolerance. Do these "other people" include those who aren't members of the Islamic religion ("infidels")?

Does Allah teach you in the Koran that it is NOT OK to kill people UNLESS they are infidels?

Do you approve of, and support those of the Islamic religion who kill infidels (those not of the Islamic religion)?

And here's the big one:

Will you denounce, here and now, in no UNCERTAIN terms, Islamics who kill, and seek to kill, those who don't believe in Allah, don't believe in the Koran, and aren't members of the Islamic religion (a/k/a "infidels")?

Under the Koran, the term "infidel" means "pagan" -- Christians and Jews are regarded as "people of the book" and are recognized as sharing, with islam, a spiritual tradition. They are not regarded as "infidels". That being said, nowadays there is currently a lot of persecution of Christians and Jews by Muslims in this world. For many centuries, however, significant minority populations of Jews and Christians survived, and even thrived in Islamic lands. Now they tend to be leaving. Look at the Coptics in Egypt or the Iranian Jews. Anyway, we should not view these problems as part and parcel with terrorism inflicted under the perversion of islam proffered by the likes of Osama the goat-buggerer and his Al-Qaeda boys. Tony C. is correct -- cleaning out these terrorists does not require that we prosecute WWIII.