"It is so beautiful to kill and to be killed."
So wrote the 22-year-old Palestinian male who blew himself up after boarding a packed Jerusalem bus earlier this week killing 20 innocent Israelis and horribly injuring many others. The mass murderer's suicide note also expressed his joy at the anticipated horrors his shrapnel would inflict on unsuspecting civilians.
Most Americans, since their hellish introduction to Islamic terrorism last September, have soulfully resonated with the sufferings of Israelis who are victimized weekly and, now, almost daily by the same maniacal enemy.
While gradually learning about the bizarre, death-glorifying religious cult that so effectively spawns suicide bombers, Americans also have been treated to many battles of words in this newly discovered "clash of civilizations" such as the recent flap over whether or not Islam's founder, Muhammad, was a "demon-possessed pedophile." Or whether, for that matter, as some Christian scholars claim, Allah is actually the ancient Arab moon god, renamed by Muhammad 1,400 years ago, and not the true God and Creator of the universe.
First, even if it's true, as some contend, that Islam's Allah is not the true God, a truly sincere person who has been raised as a Muslim can refer to the Almighty as "Allah" and still be communing with the Almighty.