Religion of Peace

George W. Bush and Barack Hussein Obama have consistently characterized Islam as a "religion of peace". While individual Muslims may indeed be peaceful, it is hard to see now how that characterization holds much validity. With Sunni Muslims in Iraq massacring religious and ethnic minorities and in a war to the death with more numerous Iraqi Shiites, it is hard to discern any quest for coexistence in that faith in Iraq. The same must be said for Syria, now in the third year of a sectarian bloodletting that has killed more than one hundred and seventy thousand. The inter-religious fighting has spilled into Lebanon as well from Syria. The current war in Israel was not sparked by Jews, but by Hamas members of that "religion of peace". Even Red China has been rocked by violence in the restive Xinjiang region by Muslim Uyghur terrorists. The world will not long survive the continuing expansion of that faith should Islamists successfully form their caliphate, which would be the doorway to the hell of worldwide jihad.