What makes a terrorist?

[T-Rock]

You bring up some very valid points, and a lot of good reading along with a video I have not yet seen. Unfortunately I cannot offer a complete response due to the fact its late and I have to be up early... I am also going away for the weekend and will hopefully have internet, but I cannot promise anything. I won't forget about you, and I hope I can continue the discussion

No problem.…and thanks for taking a look. I will leave this last parting thought though, as the Encyclopaedia of Islam simply states:

The duty of the jihad exists as long as the universal domination of Islam has not been attained. Peace with non-Muslim nations is, therefore, a provisional state of affairs only; the chance of circumstances alone can justify it temporarily. Furthermore there can be no question of genuine peace treaties with these nations; only truces, whose duration ought not, in principle, to exceed ten years, are authorized. But even such truces are precarious, inasmuch as they can, before they expire, be repudiated unilaterally should it appear more profitable for Islam to resume the conflict.

http://www.meforum.org/2066/war-and-...eceit-in-islam