when their false claims are echoed in the media in the West, that adds some legitimacy to their claims, at least for uneducated Muslims

Do you really want to endorse such a disparaging statement about Muslims, that they are so weak minded that they find “false claims” by Western media about their own religion persuasive? Would you ever claim that abortion clinic bombers were confused about their religion in the same way? And that the local Imams also misunderstand their religion so badly they can’t clear that up for these “uneducated Muslims”?

Islamophobia is nonsense term invented simply to suppress freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom to acquire new knowledge. Any criticism of Islam, Muslims, or any of their foundational tests is met with cries of Islamophobia. Implying that criticism of, or expressed apprehension, of Islam and Muslims is phobic is in itself phobic. The “Islamophobes like Robert Spencer and Hugh Fitzgerald” provide links to their sources of knowledge. These sources include, but are limited to, the sacred texts of Islam. Copies of these texts are readily available to anyone with enough honesty to educate themselves about Islam before reaching a conclusion. Before I became aware of “islamophobic” websites and blogs My opinion of Islam changed radically. Prior to using the Internet to acquire knowledge of Islam, and Muslims, I accepted the premise that Islam is a ‘Religion of Peace’. I now see very little evidence to justify that claim. If I had not acquired any knowledge of Islam and suddenly began to criticize it then I could have been properly classified as an Islamophobe. However, since my most earnest criticisms of Islam have evolved based on the knowledge I have acquired I am no longer phobic.

Even the asking of a thoughtful question is condemned. Supposed scholars claim that unless someone is fluent in Arabic they can not properly read and understand Islam. Okay, if this is ‘the test’ are all these learned Islamic scholars fully fluent in the Arabic dialect(s) used to create the ‘Tradition’? [See Chapter 2 The Religion of Islam - Maulana Muhammad Ali -ISBN 0-913321-32-X]

There is no cure for ignorance and stupidity, but Islamic jihad is real and will destroy us. Not necessarily the violent kind, mind you: the jihad by subversion, treason, infiltration, intimidation and finally outbreeding. Terror, in case you don’t know it yet, is fundamental to Islam: it always works.

Shouldn’t worry a gay atheist. In an Islamic state you can only be killed once…

Unfortunately Morgoth I didn’t feel I was in a sufficient state of grace to take the wafer.

And the money I should have put in the collection plate, I spent instead on a hearty breakfast at a nearby café.

Did you have communion? Did the priest slip you one?

*fnarr*

I went to church before breakfast.

And I now await, with baited breath, your quantum physics thesis and your critique of the mandelbrot equation.

By the sounds of it Palubiski, someone passed you the tequila before breakfast.