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By Christopher Orlet on 3.10.08 @ 12:02AM

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I would be more hopeful for a quick end to Salafist-Jihadism if I could but find in the Koran a single passage similar to "turn the other cheek," or "love one another as I have loved you." However that good book is oddly silent on loving one's enemies.

Indeed whenever the word "love" is used, it is applied in a negative sense, as in it is wrong to love this life, more than the next. We are left with an anachronistic and patriarchal religion that makes the Amish look in vogue.

That was Burleigh's good news. The bad news is that terrorism in general shall not perish from this earth. Like some particularly stubborn form of cancer it may go into remission, but it shall always return, perhaps in another place and another form. But have no doubt, it shall return.

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