John Bell at Notes From A Hillside Farm links to two very different views of terrorism. Here's the first paragraph from the story in Gulf News Online:



"Martyrdom by Palestinian men and women is part of intifada, which serves their struggle against Israeli atrocities and cannot be separated from their liberation movement, said a visiting official of the Orthodox Church in occupied Jerusalem and the Holy Land."



And here the opening sentence from a BBC News story about an iconographer's work in western Romania.



"Osama Bin Laden has been depicted in a Romanian church fresco - riding a plane to Hell."



In the immediately preceding post endorsing Telford Work and his remarks on the stagnation of the Islamic world, Bell adds an assertion "that Islam is a fundamentally parasitic faith" and defends the point.