Terrorism

• Israel’s 9/11: The Need for Moral Clarity - TGC
• ‘People of Israel need our prayerful support,’ say US faith leaders from coast to coast as war continues - Fox

“Israel vowed to lay total siege to the Gaza Strip on Monday, as its military searched for militants, guarded breaches in its border fence and pounded the Hamas-ruled territory” - BPNews

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“[Khalid Shaikh] Mohammed and four other men accused of 9/11-related crimes still sit in a U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, their planned trials before a military tribunal endlessly postponed.” - BPNews

How to defeat jihad: Anti-terrorism expert Sebastian Gorka on winning the fight against Islamist extremism (WORLD)

“The Sri Lankan government accused a local militant Islamist group, the National Thowheed Jamaath, of carrying out nine April 22 bombings, according to media reports. The government also said a foreign network likely was involved in the attacks.” - BPNews

“The Pope also reiterated his conviction that all religions promote peace and that the danger of violent radicalization exists equally in all religions. ‘There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become stronger because they feed on hate and xenophobia,’ he said.

“In a 911 call during the attack Mateen pledged his allegiance to the terrorist group ISIS. Although the group also claimed responsibility for the attack, U.S. officials said they haven’t seen a direct link between the gunman and the terrorist group.”

Even in the final decade of Muhammad’s life, during which he engaged violent campaigns against non-Muslims, he did not carry out “evangelism by the sword,” Brooks said, but operated “according to a reasonable code of just war theory that was consistent with the developing Islamic worldview.” BPNews

How Should Christians Respond to Terrorism?

“[I]t would be easy to dismiss charges that extreme anti-abortion rhetoric feeds domestic terrorism, but Christians, if anyone, should recognize the power of words to bring both good and ill.”