In the aftermath of 9/11, when the shock of confrontation with pure evil had begun to subside, some of us with little knowledge of Islam began scrambling for answers. A religion? Delighting in massacring thousands of fellow human beings? Dancing in the streets in joy at horrors that stagger the imagination? What is going on here?
Certainly there have been massacres and pogroms in Christianity – even though there is not one line in the New Testament that would approve such things. Individual Christians at times and places simply took matters into their own hands, without finding authority in their religion.
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