Good post Joe...
As a Jew living in Israel, I have seen with my own eyes the horrors that result from a suicide bombing. These acts are carried out, in the main, by young fanatics that are promised great glory in the World to Come. In reality, all they will get is an early grave.
As you said, Arabs can be Muslim, Christian, even Jewish. None of these religions condone suicide or murder, the punishment being eternal damnation. The gates to Paradise are closed to these peole, despite the promises made to them.
So to answer your question, NO, a Muslim cannot be a suicide bomber. A Christian cannot be a nazi and a Jew cannot be a terrorist. The fact that so many of the above claim to be one or the other is totally against all of the religions mentioned.
The link you provided is very interesting.

I addressed this very subject in a letter I sent to the Irish Times in response to an article of theirs about the reaction of the Irish Muslim community. I cannot, unfortunately, reprint the article, but I quote from it in the letter, which follows.

Hi,

I am writing you about an article published in the Times on Monday, July 18. On page four the article is titled "Islamic leader seeks Muslim unity here".

The author, one Joe Humphreys, more or less interviews an Islamic leader, one Sheikh Allama Zille Umar Qadri, who believes that "Muslims [in Ireland] should unite - to form one umbrella" and who blames Islamic violence on a system in which every city has its own mosque "and problems can start".

What the Sheikh does not explain is how a unified Islam in Ireland or Britain could prevent terrorism or how such a union would even attempt to prevent terrorism. For all I know a union of previously somewhat independent mosques could merely prevent liberal mosques from distancing themselves from more radical mosques; the union, the "umbrella" could very likely organise Islam the same way it is organised in other countries in Europe and the middle east. And the result does not speak for the Sheikh's theory.

But even if we assume that the Sheikh can manage to take control of that union, I wonder how much good that will do. The Sheikh himself says we must find the root of terrorism and says that "people are angry over Palestine and other injustices". It appears the Sheikh has found his root. But did he actually look or did he know what the root was from the very beginning?

He ultimately blames the Jews. And I am getting tired of it. One major difference between the Germans in the 1930s and the Arabs of today is that the Germans then had one fewer example of where blaming the Jews turned out to be wrong. The Arabs today should know.

Jews have been murdered all over the Arab world and in Palestine for a long time, before Israel even existed. But we do not see Jews blowing up civilians in suicide attacks.

Injustice rules over large parts of the world, poverty and tyranny control most of Africa, poverty reigns in South America, but suicide attacks and terrorism come only from the Arab world, a region presumably rich because of oil (it's not).

Perhaps the root of terrorism is not injustice (because injustice on non-Arab countries does not generate terrorism) and not Palestine (because the Jews suffering from Arab attacks there do not blow up civilians all over the world), but Islam.

Islamic leaders say that the terrorists are not real Muslims, the Sheikh says that "those people who say we do not need to condemn terror do not know their religion". That is possibly true. Islam is possibly a peaceful religion.

But it is up to Islamic leaders to make that point. I challenge the Sheikh to condemn terrorism without putting the blame for it on Jews or Israel, to make it absolutely clear that the terrorists are not Muslims, and to take sides against terrorism even if it means siding with Israel or America.

It is up to Islamic leaders to make their point. Unfortunately Sheikh Allama Zille Umar Qadri has made the point that anger over Palestine is the reason for terrorism, even though not all of those who have a reason to be angry over Palestine, not all Arabs, and no Jews, commit terrorist acts, only Muslims do.

His second point, that education, or rather the lack of it, is a root cause for terrorism, is an odd one. For one thing, the correlation he sees between violence and illiteracy I cannot confirm. He has perhaps other sources. But it should be noted that the BBC ran an article in 2004 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3880777.stm) which said, and I quote:

"All of the Al-Qaeda members studied came from middle or upper class backgrounds. Two-thirds were college educated, a tenth had a postgraduate degree and more than seven out of 10 were married with children."

It seems to me that at least the leading and most violent terrorists are better educated than the people they attack.

Perhaps the Sheikh was not aware of this?

P.S.: Today's article about the victims of the war in Iraq gives a rather positive picture of the conflict compared with the known number of victims of Saddam's regime even in the 1990s and early 2000s. But why does the news paper not report the significance of the decrease in deaths in Iraq since and because of the regime change?

"Jews may not currently be carrying out acts of terrorism"

But that doesn't stop you from attaching some blame to them, I guess.

"but nothing stopped Zionists from murdering British policemen and soldiers during the time of the British Mandate in Palestine"

I was under the impression that policemen and soldiers are legitimate military targets. The idea of terrorism surely is to create terror by murdering civilians, not attacking military targets. Perhaps the term you are looking for is "guerilla". If the Arab terrorists decided to attack military targets for once, they wouldn't be terrorists. You have perhaps found the difference that you do not want to see.

"I grow tired of the myth of the innocent, persecuted Jew, universal victim, forever wringing his hands and wailing 'why ME Lord, why ME'."

The problem is, of course, that certain people grow tired of the "myth" every few decades. And it is the acts that often follow that make the myth true.

(I think I can add a new definition to my Liberal Dictionary!)

If you think that anti-Semitism is a myth, than I envy you and would love to live in your world.

Leauki, I doubt you'd want to live in emporor's and whip's deranged world, where hate of Jews, Blacks, Muslims and whatever seem to abound. My pet peeve is really that some people stick their heads in the proverbial sand, proclaim themselves to be the most worldly and worthy, condemn anyone who thinks otherwise, and are blatantly racist by any standard or definition.

In fact, Muslims are coming out in droves to condemn the suicide bombings. But, what really gets me is that the Arab countries and governments, ie Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc., are sitting by and doing nothing to prevent the terrorism that abounds. In fact, they seem to be using the terrorists, those hateful stupid slobs, who happen to be Arabs, to fight their collective insidious war against the western world. As far as I can see, it's not the Muslims, for the reasons that any one with any common sense has come to realize, but instead hateful Arabs who are perpetrating these acts. And, to now turn around and condemn Jews in the same post and breath is reprehensible.

"Leauki, I doubt you'd want to live in emporor's and whip's deranged world, where hate of Jews, Blacks, Muslims and whatever seem to abound. "

That's an asinine statement, and you know it. You have nothing to back such a statement up. On the other hand someone like Reiki House, who you almost always agree with, you'd never mention, though he is openly a nazi apologist, holocaust revisionist fellow who writes articles titled "Jews are a disease" with no hesitation...

" It is indeed not Islam or Muslims who perpetrate these acts"

That statement simply can't be taken seriously. As I said on another blog, the wretch that straps on a bomb and hops a bus in Israel isn't dying for a pan-Islamic world. For you to say this isn't religious is to deny the motivation, and more importantly the VALIDATION of the majority of people who do the harm.

Granted, the upper echelons of terrorism use religion as an excuse, but left to themselves they are impotent without religion. They most certainly won't risk themselves or blow themselves up. In order to do it they have to brainwash the gullible. They do that through religion.

If you don't want to call it Islam, fine, but they do. You don't make their beliefs, they do, and you can no more define them.