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Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you.

— John Ashcroft

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As quoted in an interview with Cal Thomas (November 2001), he later indicated that the remarks "do not accurately reflect what I believe I said", as quoted in "Ashcroft Invokes Religion In U.S. War on Terrorism" in The Washington Post (20 February 2002)

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