Chapter One
Is Islam a Religion
of Peace?
"ISLAM IS PEACE."
George W. Bush went to a mosque to say it late in 2001. The September
11 terrorist attacks, he averred, "violate the fundamental tenets
of the Islamic faith." In his September 20 address to Congress, he elaborated:
"The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that
has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim
clerics a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam."
The President's counterpart in London, Prime Minister Tony Blair,
concurred: September 11, he said flatly, "has nothing to do with Islam."
In 1998, President Bill Clinton had made a similar pronouncement
in a speech before the United Nations:
Many believe there is an i ...
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