[neutrino]

The specific Fatwa issued by Osama Bin Laden ordering moslems worldwide to kill all Americans, military and civilian, specifically quotes and uses the koran's surya 9-5 as its justification.

And, along with the truth nobody wants to face - a question. If there are a billion moslems worldwide, and there has been a death fatwa issued against a novelist (Salman Rushdie), and now against ALL Americans...where is a single fatwa...just ONE...that orders all good moslems to kill the terrorist bint Larden?

We're told the war isn't about religion. Very well. Show me ONE such death fatwa issued by an American mosque. There are seven million moslems in the US. Where is the clear declaration of their loyalties?

Could the answer be....nowhere?

[Travis McGee]

Could be. The Pentagon killers were living with the founder of the San Diego Islamic Cultural Center.

[Dolphy]

Great point. I am also confused, at least by the American Muslims, at the failure to stand up in our country to demonstrate their rejection of fundamentalist/extremists. I saw the American Muslim Association of some sort stand up and tell us that we should be careful in our retaliation, the FBI was mistreating them, and Americans were lashing out against them.

The fact is, Muhammad said he was ordered by God to fight the unbelievers. bin Laden and others believe they have the same angels speaking to them now. What is a moderate Muslim, someone who doesn't think about this day to day, someone who rejects the words of their prophet, or is it someone who cannot turn from this calling when the rubber hits the road. Perhaps this is why they remain silent except in complaints.

[blam]

"Where is the clear declaration of their loyalties?"

It is the responsibility of the mid-Eastern communities in this country to 'root-out' the terrorists in their midst. Have they done that? I don't think so. "You are either with us or, you're against us." One more significant terrorist incident in this country and these communities will be viewed as complicit.

[LS]

You make a good point, but you also missed a stunning truth: if there are so many Muslims, and they are really devout as everyone here wants to believe . . . why is Salman Rushdie still alive????