Osama Bin Laden's movement not only holds that Christians, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists are "unbelievers", it also holds that Seveners, Twelvers and other branches of Shia are "unbelievers", and they have actually tried to kill these folks.
At the moment 2,000,000 Afghani refugee Shi'ites are exiled to Iran as a consequence of these erroneous beliefs.
The entire Taliban operation is a manifestation of apostasy of the worst sort. Not only have they abandoned Islam in favor of Pushtan tribal traditions, they have also announced to the world that they are the only "pure" Moslems around.
All of those bloodthirsty phrases out of the Koran that are presented above should, if they were still operative, be applied by most Moslems to the Taliban and to Osama Bin Laden. Not only that, they should vew those phrases as placing an obligation on them to kill them.
cHRISTIANS AND jEWS WERE TREATED "repectfully" EARLY ON while mohammed was weak after his army grew and they reject his lies they became the enemy forever. They are infidels of the first order.
5.17. Surely, in disbelief are they who say that Allâh is the Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary) . Say (O Muhammad ): "Who then has the least power against Allâh, if He were to destroy the Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary), his mother, and all those who are on the earth together?" And to Allâh belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them. He creates what He wills. And Allâh is Able to do all things.