[supercat]

A Christian 'fundamentalist' reads the Bible and learns that he must turn the other cheek, forgive others, love his enemies. A Muslim fundamentalist reads the Koran and learns that he must kill without mercy.

How should Jews interpret the bible's commandment that if a man sleeps with another man's wife both he and the woman shall be put to death? The New Testament might allow for people to forgive the adulterers, but the commandment in the Old Testament/Torah is clear, unambigious, and unequivocal.

I think there's probably the same sort of inclination on the part of many Muslims to set aside some of the calls for Jihad as there is on the part of Jews to set aside the biblically-mandated punishments for crimes like adultery.

[pgkdan]

You're fooling yourself by trying to establish a moral equivelance between the prohibitions of the OT and the koran. Perhaps 2000 yrs ago the Torah was law, in the modern sense of the word...but no longer. Not so with the koran, therefore we see...in 2001, fornicators beaten or killed, petty thieves have hands cut off. Women unable to drive or even to travel w/o the written permission of a male relative. When the koran says to wage war against the kafir and slay them...these people take it seriously. Prepare yourself.