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One such group claiming the right to kill is Hamas (Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya), which is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant organization. They are listed as terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Israel, and the United States. Hamas attacks against Israel have included large-scale suicide bombings, such as that of the Netanya hotel in 2002, in which 29 people were killed and 133 were wounded. Hamas has used female suicide bombers, including a mother of six. In recruiting the bombers, Hamas leaders taught that the perpetrators of suicide missions would receive in heaven seventy virgins and seventy wives (some put the numbers at seventy-two; others suggest that promised virgins are a mistranslation of the Qur'an; the actual reward is seventy dates or an other fruit). Their families received a cash payment that used to be worth 12 to 15 thousand US dollars. In 2002, funds from Iraq and Saudi Arabia doubled this amount.

The Shi’a Iranian leader and holy man Ayatollah Khomeini is quoted by Amir Taheri to have said:

"Islam makes it incumbent on all adult males, provided they are not disabled and incapacitated, to prepare themselves for the conquest of countries so that the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country of the world. But those who study Islamic Holy War will understand why Islam wants to conquer the whole world. Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those (who say this) are witless. Islam says: Kill the unbelievers just as they would kill you! Does this mean that Muslims should sit back until they are devoured? Islam says: Kill them, put them to the sword and scatter. … Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those who may want to kill you! … Islam says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword! People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to Paradise, which can be opened only for Holy Warriors! There are hundreds of other psalms and Hadiths urging Muslims to value war and to fight. Does all this mean that Islam is a religion that prevents men from waging war? I spit upon those foolish souls who made such a claim."

The religiously motivated bombings and attacks by terrorist Muslim groups are too numerous to be listed. Among them are:
-2005: Delhi bombing (over 60 killed, over 180 injured); Sharm el-Sheikh bombing (64 killed).
-2005: London Underground bombing (53 killed, nearly 700 injured).
-2004: Beslan school occupation by Chechens (344 civilians killed, incl. 186 children).
-2004: Madrid trains bombing (191 killed, 1,460 injured).
-2002: Bali nightclub bombing (202 killed, 300 injured).
-2001: World Trade Center and Pentagon crashed into (nearly 3,000 dead).
-1998: U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombings (225 dead, over 400 injured);
-1988: Lockerbie crash (killed 259 aboard the plane, 11 on the ground).
-1983: U.S. Embassy in Beirut bombing (63 killed);
-1983: Beirut U.S. military barracks suicide bombing (241 killed);
-1983: Beirut French military barrack suicide bombing (58 killed).

Terrorist attacks also occur within predominately Islamic countries -- generally between the Sunni and the Shia in both Iraq and Pakistan.

Jewish terrorist actions are performed on a much smaller scale, and are limited to the Near East. (The Jews comprise only 0.2% of the world population.) However, the sentiment behind those actions appears to be similar to the sentiment governing the Islamist attacks:

Karen Armstrong notes that in 1980 Rabbi Israel Hess published an article entitled "Genocide: A Commandment of the Torah" in the official magazine of the Bar-Ilan University. In it he argued that:

"the Palestinians were to the Jews what darkness was to light, and that they deserved the same fate as the Amalekites". 3

And just what fate is that? According to 1 Samuel 15:3 the Hebrews were told:

"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."

Among the best known cases of Jewish terrorism is the 1994 machine-gunning of Moslem worshippers at a mosque in the town of Hebron. A single terrorist killed 29 people and wounded about 150 before being killed himself. The killer, Baruch Goldstein, was an American medical doctor and a devoted follower of Rabbi Meier Kahane. He became a hero to the extremists, and the marble plaque on his grave reads: "To the holy Baruch Goldstein, who gave his life for the Jewish people, the Torah, and the Nation of Israel".

Among the cases involving less loss of life are:
-Unsuccessful attempts to destroy the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aksqa Mosque in Jerusalem, combined with the killing of Muslim worshipers at the site,
-The killing of three and wounding of 33 students during a noon-time assault of Israeli terrorists on an Islamic college in Hebron in 1985. In the latter case, the terrorists had rabbinic dispensation.
-The killing of the Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin by a Jewish religious fanatic Yigal Amir was motivated by the Israeli-Palestinian accords. Extremist rabbis had reportedly ruled that the Prime Minister deserved to die because of his role in these accords.

Violent attacks by Christians:

Although most expressions of intolerance by Christians have been verbal, there have been some instances of violence, including:
-The 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, by Timothy McVeigh killed 168, including 19 children.
-One lynching, one attempted mass murder by stoning, and numerous fire bombings, shootings, and assaults victimized Wiccans and other Neopagans in the U.S. during the late 20th century. To our knowledge, all were perpetrated by Fundamentalist Christians. The increasing public awareness of, and knowledge about, Wicca, such attacks have reduced the frequency of these attacks to near zero over the past 25 years.
-Fundamentalist Christians have attacked Jewish centers, attempted to poison municipal water supplies, bombed abortion clinics, and assassinated abortion providers.

The members of the Christian organizations perpetrating these crimes seem to be convinced that the forces of truth wage a perennial, cosmic battle with the forces of falsehood, and that they face the challenge of protecting Christian truth by any methods available. That they are allowing Jesus’ cross to become Mithras’ sword does not occur to them. There are fewer attacks by Christians than by Muslim terrorists apparently because the former organizations are less numerous, their individual agendas differ, and that there is a lack of cooperation; their actions are not coordinated.

North American Christian groups engaged in violent action are often inspired by the theology of at least two major fundamentalist organizations: The Reconstructionist 5 and the Christian Identity movements.
-The Reconstructionist movement asserts that the coming reign of Jesus will abolish democracy, the separation of church and state, abortion, religious freedom, federal welfare programs, and many other features of modern society.
-Christian Identity is based on racial supremacy and biblical law. It has been the background of many extremist American movements, provides the ideological support for some America’s militias, and its ideas were most likely part of the thinking of Timothy McVeigh. 3 The most distinctive doctrine associated with Christian Identity is the belief in the Satanic origin of the Jews. They interpret the serpent in the Garden of Eden story in Genesis as the devil himself or one of his underlings. They believe that he had intercourse with Eve. This generated a line of descent from the devil, through Cain, the Edomites, and the Khazars, to contemporary Jews. Identity has fused belief in a world-wide Jewish conspiracy with that of a cosmic satanic conspiracy. 6 Jews are viewed as non-human demonic creatures who carry the devil’s capacity to work evil. 4
Christian Identity has been derived from a wayward nineteenth-century form of biblical exegesis known as British Israelism. In the last decades of the twentieth century the ideology of Christian Identity groups such as The Covenant, Sword, Arm of the Lord, The Church of Israel, Aryan Nations, Children of Yahweh, The Christian Defense League, and The Kingdom Identity Ministries, blended into their distinctive amalgam of biblical, apocalyptic, historical, anti-Semitic, racist, and conspiratorial theories. The ingredients of these theories were taken from survivalist movements, and the Patriot’s movement, and neo-Nazi variants of white supremacism. 7 Two examples should be enough to provide a taste of such thinking:
-A brochure published by Aryan Nations included this statement in their creed of faith: "We BELIEVE there is a battle being fought this day between the children of darkness (today known as Jews) and the children of Light (God), the Aryan race, the true Israel of the Bible." 4
-One of the United States most notorious right wing terrorist groups of the post-war era, the Order (otherwise known as the Silent Brotherhood, or Holy Order of Aryan Warriors) brought together militant racists from Christian Identity, a racist faction of the Odinists, and people of conventional neo-Nazi backgrounds. 7

Violent attacks by Christians:-The 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, by Timothy McVeigh killed 168, including 19 children.

Any ass can cut and paste - lets look at McVeigh, his beliefs and motives thanks - this is were the rubber hits the road - please do inform us...

-Christian Identity is based on racial supremacy and biblical law. It has been the background of many extremist American movements, provides the ideological support for some America’s militias, and its ideas were most likely part of the thinking of Timothy McVeigh.

Christian Patriots
The anti-federalist, extremist tax-resistance movements, seditious beliefs, religious and racial hatred of the American militia movement and other contemporary white supremacist organizations in association with the broader Christian Patriot movement actively incorporate Christian scripture and biblical liturgy to justify and support violent activities.[105]:105–120 Timothy McVeigh who, along with his accomplice Terry Nichols, carried out the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, has admitted to a belief in Christian Patriotism and involvement in Patriot activities.[106]

While Christian violence in the United States has been discriminately focused for decades against racial minorities and “immoral” targets, it recently has expanded into attempted bombings and poisoning municipal water supplies.36 These indiscriminate attacks demonstrate a willingness to tolerate greater levels of collateral damage in efforts to generate mass levels of casualties. The bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was the pinnacle of this trend, and although Timothy McVeigh accepted responsibility for that attack, some speculate that there was additional involvement by other conservative militia or Christian terrorists.37 Effective domestic law enforcement in the United States has largely prevented these groups from achieving widespread violence on the level of Oklahoma City, making that incident a tragic exception among a larger number of foiled plots.

-Christian Identity is based on racial supremacy and biblical law. It has been the background of many extremist American movements, provides the ideological support for some America’s militias, and its ideas were most likely part of the thinking of Timothy McVeigh.

and its ideas were most likely part of the thinking of Timothy McVeigh

The anti-federalist, extremist tax-resistance movements

show me in the NT where there is any racial supremacy, or ideas for militia's - just cos some dope tries to justify it does not make it so.

Gimme a break..any more illuminating cut and paste?? Or are ya just gonna Afartiori around on here??

It's the cause, the effect, part of the problem and part of the solution all at the same time.

Have there been any religious based solutions to religiously motivated acts of violence/hatred that you can cite?

Have there been any religious based solutions to religiously motivated acts of violence/hatred that you can cite?

The Reformation for starters.

Finally, some intelligent discourse.
As to it being the solution to the same acts it's caused, I would want to see what you mean as in an example. Have there been any religious based solutions to religiously motivated acts of violence/hatred that you can cite?

I do not believe that everything tied to religion is evil, so therefore some good must come of it. I did not mean to imply that a specific religion is able to have both positive and negative effects on the same act it has perpetrated.

Solution may have been a poor choice if words as it implies an all encompassing magic bullet. But it sounded better than "not being part of the problem".

Show me in the NT where there is any racial supremacy

Show me in the NT where there is any racial supremacy

So quick to distance yourself from the OT?

Thats why its called OLD - Christians follow the teachings found in the NT

Hebrews 8:13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

^^^^^ completely predictable response -----

Was Hitler evil, or just a short, miss guided misfit with power over people.

If you inspect yourself, inside and out, (don't loose your head ) and remove all evil, what is left? Or right for that matter. Evil is a non-entity, it is lesser minds trying to blame events on others. Just asks the President.

Bad is the opposite of good, evil by definition is immoral, pernicious, sinful and hurtful.

e·vil /'iv?l/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ee-vuhl] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life.
2. harmful; injurious: evil laws.
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
4. due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation.
5. marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.

Religion defines what is moral,

you can not conceive of an idea with out language, therefore, language is the true evil in the world