I believe that respect for another people requires taking what they say seriously. This means taking the time to learn their language, or at least hiring a competent translator, and understanding enough about their cultural context to be able to understand their idiomatic statements. This includes understanding the fundamentals of their religion. These fundamentals (in this case) include the concept of Jihad, which involves killing infidels.
I agree that the bombers are not fundamentally suicidal. In truth they fundamentally homicidal. The Muslim idea is that they get a guarantee of going to wherever Allah is by dying in the process, regardless of their previous spiritual status.
The other point of this is not what I believe about them, but what they believe about themselves. They also might well have a plan for personally surviving the exchange to populate their Caliphate.
missiles,
stealth bombers,
conventional aircraft,
submarines,
air craft carriers,
stealthy helicopters,
heavy helicopters,
seal teams,
special ops HI/LO jumpers,
or
lying diplomats
we will respond with.
You are probably referring to the Inquisition conducted by the Catholic Church. Please remember that one of the 'crimes' that could get you death at the stake under the Inquisition was owning a bible. The bible is the most subversive document ever written.
We live at a time when more people are persecuted for their Christian faith than at any time in history. Muslim leadership does not need you to cover up their crimes.
I notice that your defense of evolution consists of an ad hominem attack, and not a reasoned argument. Why?
I normally see a reference to: http://www.talkorigins.org/ at this point in the conversation, which is a delightful collection of all the fallacies in evolution. See if you can spot the error in each argument! (There are often more than one.)
Christians are held to be infidels.
The Koran calls for the death of any person that denies any part of the Koran. When a Christian says that Jesus is the son of God (the foundational believe in Christianity), he earns a death sentence because either: a) he is worshiping some other God, or b) he is contradicting Mohammed. Either case is a death sentence.
Perhaps you think this is a thing of the past? There is a man in Iran condemned to death today for the crime of converting to Christianity.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford