[Kevin Curry]

It is unproductive and wrong to seek out passages from holy books that seem to justify the "evil" nature of any religion.

For a Christian, it is essential and right to mark the Koran as such a book. Mark peaceable Muslims themselves for mistreatment or injustice? Absolutely not. Mark their Holy Book as proceeding from an evil source? Absolutely. That is all part of being as wise as serpents but as harmless as doves.

Graham deserves applause from Christians even as he is excoriated for his words by the PC crowd.

[XJarhead]

I find it humorous, if somewhat sad, that anyone who asserts that islam is not an "evil" religion is part of the "PC crowd." I made a point of doing some reading on islam before, during, and after my deployment for the Gulf War. Like any book, including the Bible, you could take a single sentence out of context and draw some pretty heinous conclusions. Overall, though, the Koran does not advocate violence or hatred.

The problem, in part, is that we hear the phrase "radical fundamentalism", and incorrectly assume this means that it's practitioners are taking the Koran literally. They're not. What they are doing is focusing on some hadith that generally have been discredited by most islamic scholars. As bizarre as it sounds, the true roots of what passes for "fundamentalism" are to be found in the 20th century.