Quote Originally Posted by stubbicatt View Post
So, reading here between the lines, Al Qaeda is right: This is a crusade, or a war on Islam? That's really too bad.

It isn't the religion, really, it is the political ambitions of several individuals who seek to gain prestige or power. They use the religion to legitimize their ambitions. It isn't so different anywhere in the world you go. Religion has been used by the ambitious to assuage the legitimate alarm of those who would otherwise oppose that ambition.
I have to disagree. This isn't a war on Islam; in the sense that, the goal is not the destruction of Islam as a religion, or the conversion of any adherents, which is the only sense a "war on islam" makes sense.

It IS (or should be) a war to keep Islam out of the political arena, where it has proven to be destructive to human well-being and liberty.