It was reported today by WorldnetDaily that the Saudi Justice Minister had said that it is okay for Saudis to go to Iraq to kill Americans and Iraqis --in other words a religious Jihad in the name of Islam. Then they (the Arab/Muslims) wonder why some in the west take the hardline and advocate fundamental Christianity in response to their hard line fundamentalism.

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Militant Islam and poverty [166 words]	Ayasha	Apr 10, 2007 18:54
islam will soon go extinct in my zone please do something [86 words]	hamza ali chuba	May 5, 2006 19:10
Middle East [44 words]	Clifford Ishii	Aug 5, 2005 02:04
↔ middle east [66 words]	joe	Jul 10, 2006 11:00
Similarities between Islam and Christianity? [329 words]	Dean Freeman	Jul 23, 2005 18:04
↔ Similarities between Islam and Christianity [94 words]	sharmake warsame	Aug 15, 2008 23:44
↔ wow! [6 words]	kelsey	Nov 25, 2008 13:34
London Attacks [39 words]	Clifford Ishii	Jul 7, 2005 14:38
Biblical Christianity [103 words]	Clifford Ishii	Jun 23, 2005 21:11
Radical Islam [58 words]	Clifford Ishii	May 15, 2005 17:49
⇒ Peaceful Islam? [63 words]	Clifford Ishii	Apr 27, 2005 18:04
Islam is Fascist, it is not a religion [273 words]	Craig Read	Apr 20, 2005 15:43
Militant Biblical Christianity [15 words]	Clifford Ishii	Mar 9, 2005 17:49
↔ We Must return to a "Crusade" Doctrine,and not Just to a "Just War" Doctrine. [209 words]	Mark Kerezman	Mar 11, 2006 09:12
More religion not the answer [97 words]	Brian F.	Jan 23, 2005 11:06
Fundamentalist Christianity and Al Qaeda [53 words]	Clifford Ishii	May 25, 2004 17:48
↔ a fundamentalist Christian [135 words]	S.H. Kang	Jul 18, 2007 01:18
there are extremists for every religion and not just for Islam [11 words]	A.A.A	Jan 4, 2004 14:05
↔ Timothy Mcviegh [33 words]	Timothy E. Vislocky	Jul 9, 2006 15:20
↔ Timothy Mcviegh was a Pantheist [17 words]	Alan Smithey	Sep 22, 2006 12:35
↔ equal justice [24 words]	flyer55	May 6, 2009 08:47
Right Wing use of Religion in the West [577 words]	David O Reilly	Apr 17, 2003 07:57
↔ Chris Hedges [50 words]	Andy Phillips	Feb 5, 2007 15:42
Conservative Christianity [79 words]	C Ishii	Apr 16, 2003 01:23
Hmmmm?! [447 words]	True Seeker of knowledge	Feb 27, 2003 16:03
↔ to clear things up (Hmmmm) from a Disciple of Christ [2558 words]	Sozo	Sep 4, 2006 13:44
↔ Catholic views on the Bible [212 words]	Randy Atlanta	Dec 30, 2006 03:56
Is a whale a fish or a gorilla a monkey? [263 words]	Rian McGuinness	Dec 11, 2002 20:19
↔ great [10 words]	sierra	Apr 17, 2008 10:14
Moderate Muslims [162 words]	Wylie Greene	Dec 10, 2002 18:44
The goal of militant Islam [w/response] [109 words]	Jamil	Oct 8, 2002 20:02
Islam [152 words]	H R Thomas	Aug 30, 2002 17:30
Kudos to Dan Pipes [52 words]	John T Urban	Aug 28, 2002 09:48
Militant Islam is more dangerous [182 words]	Yelena	Aug 27, 2002 16:18
It didn't start in 1990 [118 words]	Timothy E. Vislocky	Aug 27, 2002 12:55
Militancy across religious lines, not social [222 words]	Mark Eric Stein	Aug 27, 2002 10:08
Stay the course! [40 words]	Dixon Porter	Aug 27, 2002 08:40
Islam vs. Militant Islam [726 words]	Alim Javid	Aug 27, 2002 08:09
Comparison to other religions? [w/response] [36 words]	George Valdshtein	Aug 27, 2002 05:36
Militant Islam in Indonesia [462 words]	Eddy Suwondo	Aug 27, 2002 03:24
Irfan Khawaja - I respectfully disagree [365 words]	FreeMan	Aug 26, 2002 22:10
An International Threat [276 words]	Mary	Aug 26, 2002 21:07
↔ Islam needs to grow up [142 words]	Joe	Feb 5, 2006 16:54
Conservative Christians also want to impose their viewpoints on others [508 words]	E Zucker	Aug 26, 2002 21:02
Radical Islam May Be More Dangerous than Fascism and Communism! [122 words]	Gary Vineberg	Aug 26, 2002 20:44
↔ There is no such thing as an extermist Muslim, the religion itself is extreme [37 words]	col	Jan 19, 2008 21:14
Prescient and Wise [46 words]	Harold & Selma Samuels	Aug 26, 2002 19:17
Militant Islam and Christianity [355 words]	Irfan Khawaja	Aug 26, 2002 16:58
Right on track [22 words]	Common American	Aug 26, 2002 16:30
As much a threat as communism was [111 words]	Rudy Ellis	Aug 26, 2002 14:00
Does the interpretation become the religion? [45 words]	Paul Kaplan	Aug 26, 2002 13:28
Interpretation of Islam [139 words]	A. Ahmed	Aug 26, 2002 12:01

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