Driving the hard-core sanitizing crusader is what can best be described as a delusion of contamination. He sees the world as a polluted place, teeming with pollutants. Prominent among these unclean abominations are the sanitizer's ideological opponents. Crusading Christians fit the bill nicely for the Islamist; and the Islamist is the perfect match for the sanitizing zeal of the crusading Christian! Two of these crusading Christians have hijacked leadership of the so-called "war on terror". No prizes for guessing who they are! The invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam were motivated, not by counter-terrorism rationale but by the sanitizing zeal of Bush and Blair. They have told us as much themselves - more than once. Saddam, they preached ad nauseum, was a murderous tyrant. So they got rid of Saddam and gifted the jihadists with a power vacuum in Iraq. Put bluntly, Bush and Blair have become part of the problem!

Interesting that the Muslim contributors to the forum have not commented upon these articles. Be interesting if they did.

Here's the reason for the sullen silence: many Christian and Muslim academics are afflicted with the delusion of contamination! They suffer from a deep-rooted intellectual taboo! So they - reflexly, if you know the jargon - shy away from rational discussion not only of the core symptom itself but also the long-term effect it has on motivational states and resultant behaviour patterns. This wilful ignorance extends all the way to our Intelligence communities; and, consequently, to the Executive branch of government - most notably in the United States and Britain. Now you know why Bush and Blair have made so many tactical blunders in Iraq!

I think the reality is that Islam is inherently violent and aggressive. The Koran and the physical actions of Mohammed himself proves the point. The flaw is not to be found in individuals but in the very teachings themselves. Of course in these PC days one can't say that.

The violence comes about when a number of potentially violent individuals band together and found a movement, a political party - an institution. I think this is an incorrect assumption. The violence within Islam is within the very message. You only have to read a Koran to appreciate that. This is at total variance to Christianity where the message is pacifist and one of peace. As I have pointed out a few times go to Topkapi and you will see Mohammed's sword. I defy you to produce Christ's sword and therein lies a huge difference.

abdulksaida, Violence and intolerance seeps from every page of the Koran, as you well know if you had read the damn thing. As a Christian you regard me as a 'Kiffir', a derogatory and offensive term. No one needs to manipulate the message of Islam: that message we see everyday in the murder and mayhem in Iraq. When are you going to see the error of your ways abdulksaida and accept the teachings of the 'Prince of Peace' ? Return to the faith of your ancestors and become a Christian, for therein lies your salvation and the salvation of your people.

owly 1- Always you exagerate, how come from every page of the Koran the voilence and intolerance seeps ! did you read all pages and make comparison and scientific calculations to say that . e.g what about law of inhiritance, how to treat our family, how to worship god, stories in Quran telling about all prophets and what they used to do , history , social, and many events it include everything beneficial and not voilence. 2- one example also , did you watch the Dr phil , the episode when 2 sisters are married to same man and living together in the same home, those womens are not muslims as it is forbidden for muslim women to marry one man when they are sisters . The muslim man cant combine 2 even polygamy is permitted in islam, if the sister died, he can marry her sister , but not in her life. when I attend this episode and those womens are americans and have kids and really it was amazing for me, as the first time I see such like that . They are living not legally by that. If their are rules and faith, so this thing would not happen, I was wonder that they want to show the advantages of polygamy like us, but also they forget that marrying 2 sisters is also illegal in islam and in a polygamy society like ours. Is it amazing !! 3- ok, you call me to be christians as my ancestors, what do you mean ? becasue you think as Iam palestinian or not ? I know all my ancestors are muslims even if I born in the holly land . your ancestors are christians as I think, but I think in my relegion , I can find more solutions to many problems in it more than in christianity now and not pure christianity before. 4- mr owly, how many times i told you , if you are real christian and worshiping only one God , so you are not kafer, why always you like to manipulate the message of islam, the Quran dont consider you low or kafer , you are consider as one of the people of the book, and you know what meaning that ( book is tawrat and bible ), so stop always telling incorrect information and read explanation of Quran to understand the context .

You've got to hand it to Tony Blair - when he goes into denial, he does it in style! His speech to British troops in Iraq - his last as prime minister! - has him clinging to his "I did what I thought was right" refrain, blaming "foreign forces" for the jihadist carnage. Well, prime minister, for once your sleight of hand presentation betrays your pathological inability to face reality! Who, you might have asked yourself, let those dastardly foreign forces into Iraq in the first place? Not Saddam, for sure! The foreign jihadists flooded the country, and Iran took a heightened interest in their progres, only when Saddam was toppled and running for dear life! No, prime minister, you will not get off the hook with strategems like that. Suppose - for once - you bite the bullet and tell us what you mean by 'right' when you say you did "what you thought was right." Was it some sort of gut feeling? Whatever led you to make such a monumental strategic blunder cannot have been the result of rational thought, can it?

Postscript to above. After all the jihadists (including the foreign contingents) do what they think is 'right' when they blow themselves up, behead captives, and lob mortar shells into the Green zone. So you see, prime minister, you would be wise to tell the world exactly what you mean by that much abused term!

That's the best I can do for you, Mirkokick! Whatever way you look at the concept, Jihad is a sanitizing crusade in the same sense that Hitler's Final Solution was a sanitizing crusade, that the Catholic church's burning of heretics was a sanitizing crusade, that Milosevic's ethnic cleansing of the Balkans was a sanitizing crusade. If you want to understand the sanitizer's motivational state, you don't study religion - you study psychopathology!

We congratulate CNN and Christiane Amanpour for the outstanding report, however, was it accurate representation of Islam? Did it bridge the gab or further add to the misconceptions? to read more click on http://www.muslimbridges.org/content/view/713/37/