What I took from the President's press conference:

[agilebrit]

He said (roughly): "[the terrorist attacks] aren't the work of a religion, but of a fanatical political ideology."

Well....Maybe.

The problem with saying something like that is that, to the radical Muslim mind, religion and politics aren't separate, and anyone that doesn't conform to their idea of religion, quite frankly, deserves to die. And that's what we're up against. It's a tenet of their religion that unbelievers are worthy of nothing but contempt and death. It's in their Koran. So...I guess I disagree with President Bush on this issue.

I'm not saying that all Muslims are terrorists. But it sure seems like all our terrorists are Muslims. Make of that what you will.

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In other news..."World in a Minute" had a little blurb about a "butterfly" with a 7 1/2 inch wingspan. Only problem was, it was a moth. Look, people, if you're going to do a news story involving science, be sure and get the science right, okay? *sigh*

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[alliterator.livejournal.com]

I think that the terrorist fanatical political idealogy is masked by their fanatical religious idealogy. They use their religion as a cover. They want women subjugated? It's their religion. They use it as an excuse, which is just wrong.
I'm not saying that some Americans don't do that either - I'm pretty sure Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson mask their right-wing political idealogy with religion. Except I don't think they ever firebombed anyone.