You have to use violence to defend Islamic values? "Yes, of course." Where did this Misunderstander of Islam get this crazy idea? Has he been reading "Islamophobic" literature? Where is the Vast Majority of Peaceful Muslims rushing to disabuse him of his misunderstanding? "Defending Islam, with violence: Trial of Salafist man rivets Germany," from World Crunch , October 15 (thanks to Frank): BONN - "You have to use violence to defend Islamic values?" asks the judge. "Yes, of course," Murat K. replies. Five months after he attacked police officers with a knife, the 26-year-old Salafist came clean in the courtroom: it was his duty, he said, to wound the police officers. The officers in question are veterans, used to dealing with hooligans and rioting demonstrators, also very aggressive ones. They are not prone to being easily riled. That they should be the ones involved makes Murat K.'s case all the more unusual. The wiry 49-year-old commander has been with the police's operational readiness squad since 1998. Murat K. went for him with a knife, but missed. The policeman whose job it was to get into the thick of the action with a camera and document what happened had 12 years of police experience. He received a knife wound. Then there was the group leader: a self-possessed woman of 30 with a clear and precise way of speaking. She had been through May 1 demonstrations in Berlin several times. She describes what happened this way: "This was different from everything else.