God will know...

I was struck by the almost exact correspondence between the Ayatollah's comment and that of the papal legate, Arnald-Amaury, at Beziers in the early 13th century CE. Some things regrettably never change...

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As a footnote: I have also prepared a "reduced" image of a pair of related DoubleQuotes for anyone wishing to post it to a blog with column-width constraints that prevent the larger image from being used:

I have called these two iterations of a highly similar meme "Theory" and "Practice" respectively, because President Bush is enunciating a principle under which other nations may be judged, the al-Qaida spokesman is describing a battlefield doctrine for application in the field.

It is also interesting to compare:

Another group, Aryan Action, praised the attacks of 11 September, saying: 'Either you're fighting with the Jews against al-Qaeda or you support al-Qaeda fighting against the Jews.'

Ed Vulliamy, Anthrax attacks' 'work of neo-Nazis', Observer, October 28, 2001
http://www.guardian.co.uk/anthrax/story/0,1520,582232,00.html