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I shall never forget that very sad morning in September nine years ago, when Arab-Muslims committed their Manhattan and Washington, D.C.

One of the most frequently used arguments heard in the defense of Islam is that the Bible is just as violent as the Koran. The logic goes like this. If the Koran is no more violent than the Bible, then why should we worry about Islam? This argument is that Islam is the same as Christianity and Judaism.

Islam has played an important role in the making of history and culture of the Arabic speaking peoples.

As a Florida pastor plans a Quran-burning bonfire on September 11, The Daily Beast’s Asra Q. Nomani, herself a Muslim, says there are a few brutal passages in the Quran that need to go up in smoke.

An energetic public reaction to something like the Ground Zero mosque would have been inconceivable a decade ago.

Change in Strategy after 9/11 It is clearly obvious that the strategic context alter after the terrorist’s attacks of 9/11. The Bush administration inaugurated the Bush doctrine. Under the new doctrine the USA has the right to preemptively attack any potential enemy of American interest. The Bush administration in 2001 attacked Afghanistan to remove the Taliban and Al Qaeda. In 2003, President Bush attacked Iraq remove Saddam Hussein because all the intelligence information indicated that it has weapons of mass destruction. That it was prove to be false; however American forces liberated two countries under brutal despotic regimes.

The caliph in Sunni Islam is the symbol of the supranational unity of the Muslims, and is the successor of Muhammad as the military, political, and spiritual leader of the Islamic community. There hasn’t been a caliph for nearly 90 years, but now Pakistan’s Minister of State for Industries, Ayatullah Durrani, has a novel idea for just the right man for the job: Barack Obama!

Today, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian dictator, will arrive in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of participating in the Middle East Peace Summit planned by U.S. President Barack Obama. There he will discuss the Palestinian-Israeli issue, along with Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority leader Abbas.

One of the most common arguments of the supporters of the Ground Zero mosque includes religious freedom as guaranteed by the First Amendment.

When you read the comments section of an article about Islam, you will see the argument: I have some Muslim friends and they are good people.