RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Insight

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Insight magazine has an eye-popping interview with a top Egyptian cleric who justifies suicide terrorism:

When Palestinians first began blowing themselves up to murder innocent Israeli civilians in April 1994, consternation gripped many official spokesmen of Islam. Moderate Islamic scholars emphasized that Islam long has considered suicide to be a sin. Several clerics in Saudi Arabia even joined the chorus, condemning the attacks. But then something happened. It became political, and Arab leaders realized they had a new way of controlling the masses and directing their anger away from their own leadership. The rest, as they say, is history