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Article: Pondering The Ways And Whys Of Islam: Speaker compares Muslim, Christian extremists.
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- The Monterey County Herald (Monterey, CA)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2006
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Byline: Kevin Howe
Jan. 5--Would David Koresh be considered a representative Christian? Are members of the IRA Christian terrorists? These comparisons are worth pondering when looking at how Islam is often portrayed by the news media, according to John Provost, philosophy instructor for Monterey Peninsula College's Gentrain program, who spoke Wednesday
at MPC on "Entering the Muslim Mind." News reports of the fiery deaths that culminated in the FBI siege of Koresh's Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993, and the ongoing war between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, didn't link Christianity and terrorism, he noted, but the ...