please present evidence to refute the following statement.  if there
is no evidence to refute the statement, please address the statement's
plausibility:

(3) by the letter of muslim law, the terrorists that kill christians
are doing the right thing.

Hi! Thanks for the question.

Our first article taken from the New York Times by the Global Policy
website refutes this statement.

"Literally speaking, jihad means struggle and/or striving in the cause
of Allah and includes killing and being killed in his way. It
encompasses the whole of the life of a believer and can be divided
into three major segments: 1) against the enemies of Allah and his
religion — Islam; 2) against Satan; 3) against the evil inclinations
of one's inner self."

"According to Islamic law there are at least six reasons why bin
Laden's barbaric violence cannot fall under the rubric of jihad: 1)
Individuals and organizations cannot declare a jihad, only states can.
2) One cannot kill innocent women and children when conducting a
jihad. 3) One cannot kill Muslims in a jihad. 4) One cannot fight a
jihad against a country in which Muslims can freely practice their
religion and proselytize Islam. 5) Prominent Muslim jurists around the
world have condemned these attacks, and their condemnation forms a
juristic consensus (ijma) against bin Laden's actions. This consensus
renders his actions un-Islamic. 6) The welfare and interest of the
Muslim community (maslaha) is being harmed by bin Laden's actions and
this equally makes them un-Islamic."

"Two Views: Can the Koran Condone Terror?"
New York Times 
October 13, 2001 
http://www.globalpolicy.org/wtc/fundamentalism/1013koran2.htm

Our next link meanwhile from the BBC website says that the Koran
permits war but in a disciplined and honorable manner.

"But the idea of a total and unrestricted conflict is completely
unislamic."

"'Fight in the cause of God against those who fight you, but do not
transgress limits. God does not love transgressors.'" Qur'an 2:190

"Islam bans the killing of non-combatants (Qur'an 2:190 above), or of
a combatant who has been captured."

"Islam and the ethics of war"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/ethics/war/islam.shtml

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The Koran permits war and the Bible bans it. Any so called Christians
who go to war are deliberately going against their own Holy Book and
therefore against their own God. Which religion would an honest peace
loving person choose? And what happens when at the end of the line we
discover that there was only one God after all. And He was a God that
did not permit war. Doesn`t leave much hope for all the muslims in the
world, does it?