There are many other things happening in the US election that are absolutely incredible. President Bush is making religion a core strategy in winning votes. His campaign team has labelled conservatism as good and liberalism as evil. His views on abortion and homosexuality are based on core Christian values and he is even proposing to amend the US constitution to accommodate Christian fundamentalists. A documentary has been made about Bush where as a born again Christian he is being shown to the voters as a prophet!

There is really nothing wrong in the Bush team adopting the above to win the elections. There is however a major problem here when we take into account how the US views other countries supporting conservative and fundamentalists values, and advocates using religion and politics together to further the state's objectives. States with Muslim population adopting the same principles as Bush team advocates for the US become not good but evil! There is thus either a double standard of huge proportions here or that the Bush team has concluded that Christianity is good and Islam is evil.

Those in the US supporting a second term for Bush believing it would make the world safe are making a major mistake. Bush's re-election would drive a wedge between the West and Muslim nations that is just too dangerous even to contemplate. The reality is Osama bin Laden turned against the US because the latter did not support him to remove the monarchy in Saudi Arabia. His fight against the US is not for Islam. If he is found and killed, that will be the end of al Qaeda's efforts because despite using the name of Islam, support for his cause against the US being an Islamic one is absurd that very few Muslims believe. It is Mr. Bush who is giving credibility to his cause and another four-year term for him is just what Osama is hoping for.