PatRobertson.com -- VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., February 22, 2002-Pat Robertson specifically made comments on The 700 Club that were directly related to a CBN news report. This segment examined Muslim views regarding the events of September 11, US foreign policy, and the nature of Islam. CBN sent one of its news staff members that is fluent in Arabic to the American-Muslim annual convention near Washington DC and to the large Arab section in the Brooklyn community. Here are a few of the reported comments:

• Muslim-American attending conference: "I don't consider Hamas and Hizbollah terrorists. Those 'people' have a cause. I am with them one hundred percent in whatever they do including the killing of innocent."
• Egyptian Muslim: "In My opinion, those people are defending themselves. We could not say they are terrorist movements."
• Algerian Muslim: "America has a lot enemies, anyone will wish this blow to this country, because it is not fair in its foreign policy."
• Inside his Brooklyn Mosque, Egyptian, Imam Mohammed Moussa, says, "Even the killing of innocent people is a legitimate part of the Muslim Jihad. In Islam, he who through El Jihad does an act 'for the sake of Allah' with wrong motives will be rewarded once, and the one who will do it with good motives will be rewarded twice."

CBN Spokeswoman Angell Watts said, "The Washington Post has not given a full picture of The 700 Club program which featured Robertson's remarks. Looking at today's headlines about Daniel Pearl, journalists at the Washington Post should take more care in reporting the whole story in context. The Post has chosen not to report the bulk of Arab American Muslim opinion that supports terrorist actions as an expression of their faith. Robertson was only responding to what some American Muslims are saying themselves. Robertson is bringing to the American people the truth that we must all be aware of -- that militant Islam is dedicated to the destruction of America and the killing of the Jews and Christians around the world. To deny that the Koran promotes violence to many followers would be to deny the truth."