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President Barack Obama’s speech on bin Laden’s death On Sunday evening I was checking some emails when I got a glimpse of a yahoo newsflash that Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by U.S. Forces . After reading through the transcript of President Barack Obama’s speech on bin Laden’s death , I can certainly concur with the President that the “death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat al Qaeda” and that one must not confuse opposition to terrorism as a war against Islam. Hank Hanegraaff also offered some helpful insights on Bin Laden’s death on the May 2, 2011 edition of the Bible Answer Man broadcast . It is wholly consistent from the just war tradition that one like Bin Laden, who had organized the mass murder of people, and continually carried out violence against innocent people to be opposed with military force. Paul writes, “Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the sam...

Browsing the news online, I came across Time magazine Matti Friedman piece entitled Clashes Erupt at Sacred Jerusalem Site. It concerned a clash between Muslim worshippers and Israeli riot police, which ended in some injuries, particularly a Palestinian woman who suffered a head injury from a rubber bullet. This all happened near the Western wall, perhaps a artifact from the Jerusalem before it was destroyed by Rome in AD70, near the what Jews call the Temple Mount and Muslims call the Nobel Sanctuary. The trouble centers on social, political, and theological differences between Muslims and Jews in the region, but the catalyst is an Israeli decision to include two West Bank shrines on a list of national heritage sites— the site that Jews call the Cave of the Patriarchs and Muslims call the Ibrahimi mosque, and the other site is Rachel's Tomb, adjacent to the city of Bethlehem. Of course this is just one more squabble in a whole series of squabbles that erupted beginning with Isr...