[E Rocc]

A small and shrill minority of Freepers professes to hate all Muslims. I wish to remind anyone who might belong to that group that if you truly hate all Muslims, you hate the hero of this story, and anyone like him.

Bingo. Perhaps its most clear when the Islamophobes seek to blame Islam for every Iraqi atrocity even though Sadam is a totalitarian crypto-socialist who embraces Islam at his convenience the way his hero Stalin embraced the Russian Orthodox Church when the Germans invaded.

Our side is gaining on these pages....more and more posters are willing to point out that religious bigotry is a great big pile of barbrastreisand. I'm looking forward to the day when anti-Islamic bigotry gets zotted as quickly as other forms of racial or religious prejudice do around here.

-Eric

[solzhenitsyn]

Eric, I'm as opposed to the militant Islamists as much as anyone (and probably have been for longer than most of the "hate all Muslims" crowd has even been aware of the problem). But not all Muslims are like that, and we don't have to become bigots in order to destroy bigots.