[Migraine]

For two decades and more, "secular" has been a term of opprobrium among Christian fundamentalists

I think not. While I can't speak for other Christians, my quarrel with secularists comes only when they try to deny or prohibit the free exercise thereof (i.e., create a freedom FROM religion). There is also a sense in which secularism sometimes becomes a religion in its own right, and it becomes a downright authoritarian one when it attempts to clear the decks of all music but its own.

[Senator Pardek]

It is a savage cult. I don't hate those who are sucked into it any more than I hate all who are sucked into the Church of Satan.

But why is Islam given leeway, when the COS is derided, even though it's just another religion?

[Jmouse007]

"Islam Means Peace" =

Don't you get it? When they kill or subjigate all the Christians and Jews in the entire world there will be "peace."

"Moderate Muslims Fear Their Message Is Being Ignored"

No, we got the real message loud and clear on September 11th!

I hear a lot about being "tolerant" towards Muslims, but not about the Muslims being tolerant of Christians and Jews. I have just one question:

Where are the thousands upon thousands and millions of Muslims and their clerics voicing their outrage over what their religion has foisted upon New York and the United States?

Answer: They don't exist because Islam is NOT a "tolerant" religion, nor is it a religion of "peace" (just ask the Christians being killed and persecuted by Islam throughout the rest of the world.

[danielobvt]

"Muslims have trouble living peaceably with their neighbors. The question naturally arises as to whether this pattern of late-20th-century conflict between Muslim and non-Muslim groups is equally true of relations between groups from other civilizations. In fact, it is not. Muslims make up about one-fifth of the world's population, but in the 1990s they have been far more involved in intergroup violence than the people of any other civilization. The evidence is overwhelming."
This pretty much sums it up. Not too much redeeming in this religion.
I was really suprised that an op-ed with a quote like that was in the WP. Pretty unusual for them.

[TrueBeliever9]

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