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Article: Islam and terrorism: a humanist view.
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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"Leaders of the Muslim community in the United States, and even President Bush, have routinely asserted that Islam is a religion of peace that was hijacked by fanatics on September 11. These two assertions are simply untrue. First, Islam--like Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, or any other religion--is not about peace. Nor is it about war. Every religion is about absolute belief in its own superiority and the divine right to impose its version of truth upon others."
--Dr. Pervez Amir Ali Hoodbhoy
In the January 8, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof wrote, "There s just one thing that most Americans and Osama bin Laden seem able to agree on: that the attacks ...