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The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

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✓Similar Perspectives

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

— Noam Chomsky

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.

— Paul Weyrich

The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

— Ted Cruz

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.

— James Buchan

There have been bombings by extremists. They are not representatives of Islam. They're not representative of the vast majority of people who love this country, but nonetheless, they exist.

— Edward Zwick

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

— Sebastian Junger

There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.

— Tim Pawlenty

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

— Gijs de Vries

✗Opposing Perspectives

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

— George Pataki