Where does one draw the line between a religion and a cult?Religions don't corporately engage in terrorism, murder, extortion, kidnapping, drug running, and embezzlement.
Cults often do. al Qaeda always does.
The definition of a cult is a religion based on other than Christian Principles. Islam is considered a cult because of its rejection of the basic premise of Christianity. Judaism is not considered a cult because it is the ancestor of Christianity and the Jew is God's chosen. Jew's didn't kill Christ, Christ gave His life. As an aside. In the book of Luke we are told about the birht of Christ. He was wrapped in swaddling clothes. The interesting part of that is that because of the high infant mortality rate infants were wrapped in grave clothes just in case. So He really was born to die.
Religions don't corporately engage in terrorism, murder,don't know if I agree....
extortion, kidnapping, drug running, and embezzlement.
...here I agree. So to make a case for his innocence, they would have to tease apart the threads of Islam and al Qaeda. They will have to show that Islam does NOT support terrorism, murder, extortion, kidnapping, drug running, and embezzlement. Hmp. Good luck to 'em. It's going to turn out that half the muslim world is one big cult.