"The vast number of Muslims in Britain and the U.S. who are educated in Western disciplines and culture, who live by the demands of Western ways of work, are driven by a conflict between the prescriptions of Islam and the freedom to think, speak, and associate, and to be protected by democracy and Western jurisprudence. These Western Muslims will have to resolve their dilemma by seeding the reformation in Islam.That depends on who the "innocent" person is. To a Muslim, a terrorist is an innocent person."True, passages in the Quran urge believers to "kill those who join other gods with God wherever ye shall find them" and to wage war on neighboring infidels. But a hundred suras of the Quran also enjoin the faithful to tolerance: one specifically says that killing one innocent person is akin to the murder of the whole world."
I will disagree with the author about one point, though -- if we would speed up the eventuality of just shooting these pricks when they decide to indulge a physical manifestation of their fanaticism, I believe it would go a long way to solving the problem. Hope I don't get the thread pulled, but it's a subject we're going to have to face sooner or later.