Is GWB right when he says Islam is a religion of peace?

Here's an interesting article.

Is Islam a religion of peace?

A few excerps from it.

If this isn't about Islam, why the worldwide Muslim demonstrations in support of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda? Why did those 10,000 men armed with swords and axes mass on the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier, answering some mullah's call to jihad?

This paranoid Islam, which blames outsiders, "infidels," for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.


in Pakistan on September 11. They were "celebrating, stabbing the fingers on one hand into the palm of the other, to simulate a plane stabbing into a building." Palestinian authorities went into overdrive to suppress images of youths celebrating the deaths in America.

The whole article bares careful reading. You can learn a lot about what is going on in the world today from it.

I personally want to believe that most Muslims are just people who want to live their life, worship their God and raise their kids, and leave the rest of the world alone.

But everyday I see something (Usually not in the liberal press) that gives me reason to believe that this Jihadist movement is a much bigger thing in the Muslim world than we think.

And a much larger danger.