3.  "There is no 'War on Terror.' It's just a term Bush and his Neo-Con friends ( i.e. Jews in his administration) use to justify American imperialism and Christian missionary efforts." Setting aside the fact that the Bush administration has done virtually nothing to halt the endemic persecution of Christians (700,000 of whom have been forced to flee Iraq) in Iraq and throughout the Muslim world -- including upside down crucifixions -- how would you then characterize the  thousands of terrorist attacks perpetrated around the world by Islamic Jidadists in the name of Jihadist Holy War during the past 40 years including the following attacks: Beirut Marine Barracks, Yemen, Achille Lauro, Somalia, Khobar Towers, USS Cole, US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, 1993 World Trade Center, 9-11, Bali, the Daniel Pearl beheading, Jakarta Indonesia, Jerusalem, Gaza, Moscow, Istanbul, Casablanca, Beslan, Madrid, London, and the beheading of Theo Van Gough?

4.  "Both Islam and Christianity seek to establish a world theocracy." Certainly it is a fact that Islam's holy books call explicitly for subjugation of all the earth's inhabitants under Islam -- a global caliphate -- and institutionalization of Islamic Sharia law and establishment of a global Islamic-Theocratic-Caliphate. Muslim leaders throughout the world have called for Jihad, Holy War against the Infidels (Jews and Christians). There are many Muslim countries that are governed by Muslim Sharia law (i.e. Islamic theocracies). Can you cite any evidence that Christians are attempting to set up a similar global theocracy and attempting to subjugate and kill all non-believers as is the case in Islam? Also, can you cite one Christian state in the world where Biblical Law has replaced secular law?

5.  "Most moderate Muslims condemn violent Jihad." Why then hasn't CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) condemned the international Islamic terrorist groups Hamas and Hizballah? Why hasn't Yusuf Islam (the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens) condemned the terrorist actions of Hamas or Hizballah? Why won't Hushan al-Husciny, Imam of the Karbala Islamic Education Center, a "moderate" Shite mosque in Dearborn Michigan -- who prayed at the DNC meeting -- condemn Hizballah as a terrorist group? Which Muslim leaders and Muslim organization are calling for an end to violent Jihad? (Anybody?)

6.  "Only a tiny minority of extremists who pervert Islam support violent Jihad." As Robert Spender documents in his must read book "War of Peace: Why Christianity is and Islam Isn't" and as a July 2006 Pew Global Attitudes Survey shows, "roughly one in seven Muslims in France, Spain, and Great Britain feel that suicide bombing against civilian targets can at least sometimes be justified to defend Islam." According to this same report, less than half of Jordan's Muslims believe terrorist attacks are never justified. In Egypt only 45% of Muslims say terrorism is "never justified." On the 5th anniversary of 9-11 an al-Jazeera Survey revealed that 49.9% of respondents supported Osama bin Laden. A 2006 Pew Survey showed that 25% of Jordanians, 33% of Indonesians, 38% of Pakistanis, and 61% of Nigerians all supported Osama bin Laden. Is this the type of widespread support for violent Jihadist terrorism and Osama bin Laden really just representative of a "tiny minority?"

7.  "The Koran mainly teachers peace -- violent passages are merely 'cherry picked.' There are equal, if not more violent passages, in the Bible." While the Koran explicitly advocates and calls its adherents to commit acts of violence on "non-believers," "apostates," and "heretics," the Bible does not. Perhaps I am misinterpreting the "sword verse" (Qur'an 9:5) "slay the unbeliever wherever you find them… and therefore, when ye meet the unbelievers in fight, smite at their necks length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind a bond firmly on them." (47:4) Can you cite one example from the Bible where Christians are commanded to commit violent acts against non-believers who don't convert to Christianity as Muslims are commanded to do in the Koran?

8.  "Islam teaches tolerance." If Islam is a "tolerant" religion, why is it that the Koran/Islamic Law clearly call for killing anybody who leaves the Islamic faith? If Islam is a religion of "peace and tolerance," why is slavery still rampant in Muslim countries especially North Africa, especially in regards to adolescent female sex slaves? If Islam teaches "tolerance" why is the Koran virulently anti-Semitic, referring to Jews as "apes and pigs?" How can Islam be tolerant when it advocates treating females as second class citizens who are required in many Islamic countries to wear stifling burqas, who are denied education, and who are not allowed to venture out in public unaccompanied? How can any religion lay claim to being tolerant when it permits men to marry as many as four wives who they can divorce for any reason any time, that commands men to own "slave girls," that teaches a man to beat his wife as part of a disciplining process (4:34), that commands forced female genital mutilation/circumcision which leaves women with life-long pain, and condones "honor killings" in which men are permitted to kill women who "dishonor" their families for committing such acts as being raped and impregnated by a family member? How can Islam be a religion of peace and tolerance when Islamic law mandates the stoning of women for adultery?

9.   "Islam is compatible with Democracy." Omar Ahmad, board chairman of CAIR which is a spin-off of a Hamas front group, the Islamic Association for Palestine, said in 1998 that "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth." CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune in 1993, "I wouldn't want to give the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future." Muslims, almost without exception, believe that the Koran is the highest authority -- superior to any secular laws. Given the statements of Ahmad and Hooper and the shared Muslim belief that Sharia Law supercedes any secular laws, how can Islam peacefully co-exist in a secular Democratic Republic like ours?