I wonder if Ms Patton is reading these comments. I also wonder if she has finally figured out what those 'behead" signs were really saying..

Her "the sign says behead" but what they really mean is "We feel so excluded" explanation really needs work.

On the other hand, maybe if we go to graduate school, get a PHd, write fancy clichéd meaningless essays, we too could understand that a call to decapitate is really just a plea for recognition -- but that is too intellectual for most of us buffoons

Good post kactuz:

"The left destroyed Western national identity and brought back the holy war… (now) it's Muslims rioting in the streets and demanding an Islamic theocracy to rule them. And why not? If rule no longer derives from the people or the nation, but panels of judges and rooms of bureaucrats, then the Islamic version is as legitimate as the Socialist version."

And the left have been white-anting the society which feeds the bludgers for a long time; a lot of the left's apologetic incomprehension of islam stems from Boulainvillier's simpering interpretation of Muhammad; this influenced Voltaire, Gibbons and a host of other leftish morons upto Foulcalt and the modern era.

It is inexplicable to me that the so-called left intelligentsia can fawn over a crude, thuggish cult like system of chaos which is a blight on humanity; it indicates a fundamental dissasociation, a cognitive dissonance for a bunch of left wing people who extol freedoms to support a theology which implacably preys on freedom.

Anyone here old enough to remember the outrage re the film "The life of Brian" ?

Cohenite.
Oh the contradictions, how to support Gay rights AND Women's rights AND the rights of Muslims to practice their faith AND continue to wage their war on Christianity and democracy, the Left have a lot of balls in the air don't they?.
As Ned Flanders would say "That's a dilly of a pickle!"

Hey in light of yesterday's little teen sock hop outside the state library in Melbourne I'm moved to make the following observations:
-Muslims and Communists listen to their group leaders and elders when told to stay away from a rally promoted by dodgy text messages, White teenyboppers and twentysomething would be "White Nationalists" clearly don't.

The above leads to the conclusion that the Islamic community is far more cohesive and well disciplined than we are led to expect, this is a relief in one way but a worry in another since it's clearly the word of the Imam which carries the most weight in that milieu.
We could also reasonably assume , as we have all along that the quality and integrity of the leadership group is crucial to the orderly operation of a Muslim congregation.
So much for the slur of essentialism.

"the outrage re the film "The life of Brian"

What, Malcolm Muggeridge going red in the face? Is that what you mean by outrage?

Essentialism was raised by the troll, squirrel; it no doubt is referring to the claim that rich diversity, or some such strangulation of semantics, exists within Islam.

It doesn't. Islam may exist in many different cultures and nations but it's point is the same and its text is the same and its intention is the same.

People who argue otherwise are either stupid or muslims, or both.