[mburbank]

"There's not a single Christian nation forcing biblical era laws such as stonings."

And yet, our nation has the death penalty, when many other modern nations don't.

"Hey man, the holocaust was a-ok, and the Atomic bomb was cool too - after all look at what Muslims are doing in the world."?

No, but I think we are talking about a lot of people who would say that Americas use of the atomic bomb on two cities was something we had to do, that we had no choice about, and that it is morally defensible and is in no way at all like what those heathen, uncivilized beheaders do. And who would say the same thing about the many civillians who've died in Iarq (the ones we accidentlly kill, not all the others). It's arguable that we are on the side of the angles when we do things like this, and that either, secularly we are civilzed and they or not' or religously, this is what God wants us to do. I think the article falls in this line of reasoning.

I have no doubt at all that Ilsamofacists or whatever you want to call them share our certainty that when they use brutality it's what has to be done.

I think we are both wrong.

If you (like Kev) think that means that I see no difference whatever between the USA and disparate bands of loathesome militant extremists thats a shame. It's just that in addition to differnces, I also see some (not complete, just some) similarities. And since we believe the other side to be wholly evil (and they may well be) I think any similarities we find should concern us.