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...four men arrested for plotting terrorist attacks as a result of that raid. Sitting in a café during a four-day furlough from prison, he told me he has converted several young men to militant Islam, and has pressed them to consider fighting to defend their religion. "Muslims who do not preach jihad are cowards, or just too comfortable with their lives," he says. Asked if young militants should fight in the Afghanistan or Iraq wars, he says, "Why not? If my Muslim brother is fighting in Pakistan, his enemy is my enemy." Still, he says, "we need fighters...
USAGE: "The eighth-grader won $40,000 in cash and prizes for nailing the final word--which means lukewarm or indifferent, particularly in matters of politics or religion...
...such vacillations between belligerence and tolerance. Muslims, who like Christians and Jews worship the God who revealed himself to Abraham, are counseled in one part of the Koran to "kill the polytheists wherever you find them." But another part prescribes a different stance toward unbelievers, "To you be your religion; to me my religion...
...exclusive devotion to Yahweh, railing against the polytheistic ways of Israel. These prophets aren't necessarily monotheists; they don't deny the existence of gods other than Yahweh. They seem to be what scholars call monolatrists, insisting that Israelites worship only one God. (See the top 10 religion stories...
...least we can quit talking as if this adaptation were impossible - as if intolerance and violence were inevitable offshoots of monotheism. At least we can quit asking whether Islam - or Judaism or any other religion - is a religion of peace. The answer is no. And yes. It says so in the Bible, and in the Koran...