“...belief that the desire for peace and life and respect for family and community interests is also shared by Hamas militants.”
If you work around terrorists, you gain an understanding of parts of their thought process. They are different than the Christian view in that Christians value life and many of them a trust and understanding of what their God has provided.
Islamists do not value life to include their own. They only value their God who also does not value life as he openly invites the Islamists to torture and kill non-believers where ever they hide. And they make that quite clear with their actions based upon qur’an teachings.
The problem is that the leaders in Christianity and the government of the US no longer wishes to engage the evil to change it or destroy it even when it attacks those who do not wish to be part of it and do are not aggressive toward it.
An excellent example of this is here:
https://www.mwkworks.com/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html
This says it all.
wy69
>>They are different than the Christian view in that Christians value life and many of them a trust and understanding of what their God has provided.
“When they discovered, from the admissions of some of them, that there were Catholics mingled with the heretics they said to the abbot “Sir, what shall we do, for we cannot distinguish between the faithful and the heretics.” The abbot, like the others, was afraid that many, in fear of death, would pretend to be Catholics, and after their departure, would return to their heresy, and is said to have replied “Kill them all for the Lord knoweth them that are His” (2 Tim. ii. 19) and so countless number in that town were slain.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caedite_eos._Novit_enim_Dominus_qui_sunt_eius.