>I've heard enough to feel confident that murder and suicide are forbidden in 'garden variety' Islam. To feel confident that the fundamentalist "brand" practised by Taliban and proselytized by Bin Ladin is based on an interpretation of their texts which has (relatively) minor acceptance throughout Islam.
>Now, even through this whole crisis coverage, I haven't heard one single "Christian" preacher/commentator pass on the golden opportunity to tell/invite listeners to 'come and accept the Lord Jesus Christ now as your personal Saviour...". I think that says something in itself.

Although I usually don't watch the television channels of the evangelistas (protestant preachers), I saw one of those preachers say that Islam uses the Qur'an to teach their people to kill in the name of God (or something to the effect). "Christianity, on the other hand..."

To me, this speech seemed like extreme ignorance, I'm sorry to say. IOW, blaming the entire muslim community (or perhaps, the prophet Muhammad, or the Qur'an) for the misdeeds of a few fanatics...

Then, again, I must be careful not commit the same mistake: to judge all protestant preachers by this one guy (or by a few others, who have what seems to me as an extreme attitudes). BTW, as far as I could gather, it was a local program (that is, from Cochabamba, Bolivia).

Hilmar.