Terrorism | Islam Does Not Encourage Terrorism

These are difficult times in relations between the West and the Islamic world. Wars and rumors of war abound, and terrorism (although rarely its context) dominates the headlines. A shooting war continues between the United States and [terrorist organization] al Qaa’ida in Afghanistan, and war evidently impends between the United States and the United Kingdom on the one hand and Iraq on the other.1

Fundamentalisms—Muslim, Jewish, and Christian—metastasize. Atop all else, violence reigns unchecked in Israel and the Occupied Territories, and makes effective responses to...

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