Reply #40: How about without intentionally killing women and children?

[Imajika]

Are you saying that the Palestinians in the occupied territories, and Sunni's engaged in the insurgency against the American occupation of Iraq, have no means available other than intentionally targeting for murder innocent civilians - to include women and children?

Do you support the Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel, and Sunni driven suicide bombings in Iraq? Do you support the Sunni's when they direct suicide trucks into markets and mosques resulting in the death of scores of innocent Shiites at a time? Is this acceptable to you? Is that a legitimate means of fighting American occupation in Iraq? How about when Palestinian suicide bombers target civilians in a pizza shop or discotheque leaving dozens of innocent teenagers dead or maimed? Is that a legitimate way to fight the Israeli's?

Sorry, but DiFi is exactly correct.

"I think until the mosques in the Muslim world and the imams in the Muslim world in a major way issue fatwa after fatwa denouncing jihad and denouncing terror that we're not going make any progress,"

Exactly, precisely correct. This problem of Islamic terror will ultimately have to be solved from within Muslim communites and the Islamic world. At this time, there is still far too many Muslims who offer only half-hearted condemnations - often with a "yeah, but..." attached.

"Until there is something like an excommunication that would take place in the Catholic Church where, if you are going to engage in this thing, do not frequent our mosques, you don't see this," Feinstein said."

Again, Feinstein nails it. Radical Islamists need to be driven from whatever mosque(s) they attend, and Muslim communities need to marginalize radicals and report any suspicious activity to the authorities.

"What you see in many places is that the mosque becomes an enabler one way or another."

And here, Diane Feinstein is quite right again.

Imajika