What type of respect do we owe Islamic terrorists who are freaked out about touching non-Muslims? And if these people were ever caught and convicted for a crime (instead of killed), how do they not get off by having themselves declared insane?

AP Enterprise: Saudi-Born Leader Reflects Increasing Influence of Radical Islam on Chechen Rebels

"...many midlevel commanders initially refused to accept Abu Walid, said the rebels' liaison in southern Russia.

"But his attitude to the war and his faith won him a lot of respect," the liaison said.

He recalled a telling encounter at one meeting of rebel commanders when Abu Walid - who adheres to the conservative Wahhabi strain of Islam - embraced a journalist, convinced by his beard that he was a good Muslim. When he learned otherwise, he retreated from the world for two days, praying night and day to cleanse himself after touching an infidel.

That extreme piety, the liaison said, has won supporters."