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Article: OP-ED; Islam's message lost on too many.(Editorial)
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- The Boston Herald
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- November 5, 2001
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Someone forgot to tell the gunmen who attacked a Protestant service in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, that Islam is a religion of peace.
Last week, assassins with automatic weapons invaded the church, killing 16. When mothers tried to shield children with their bodies, the killers stood over them, methodically firing until the moaning stopped.
The killings were in retaliation for Christian America's bombing of Afghanistan. We bomb terrorists; they kill churchgoers.
President George W. Bush has told us repeatedly that Islam is not to blame for the crimes committed in its name - that terrorists practice a fringe form of the religion widely repudiated by ...