Well I shall repeat one of my favourite phrases,religion should be like sex,done in private between consenting adults.

It is nobodies business but your own about which buttons to press that make you feel powerful or closer to your perceived creator.

Only a paedophile tries to pervert a child's sexuality and only religious paedophiles try to impose total thought control in abyss of ignorant power hungry servitude.The Christian Church has perverted and destroyed enough lives in the past and Islam is no different.

This is a battle about freedom of thought and speech.There is no room for eqivocation or fence sitting.It was the logic of the Scientific method and the separation of Church and State which made the West knowledgable and thus powerful.We have become weak and complacent through our affluence and seem to think that the gravy train will continue without courage and effort.

Well,the enemy always comes from within and it is time to wake up and smell the reality.

Myriah

If xenophobic means being critical of and condemning those who totally reject the freedooms our western civiulisation has won and defended then I'm xenophobic and bloody proud of it.

Are you not proud of your own cultural and historical traditions?
It's your sort of arrogrant name-calling and labelling that encourages those who would tear down our traditions. Why do you offer such support to those enemies of freedom?

Sunisle

My views on the rights of the Palestinians to statehood and support of a return to the borders as established in 1947 are a matter on the public record.

Syrian invasion of Lebanon
Muslim invasion of Dafur
Indonesia's annexation of Timour
Indonesia's annexation of West Papua
Pakistan's attempts to invade India
Iraq - Iran war

Now I hope you don't exclude terrorists acts of war against innocents.
That list in modern times starts with the outrage in Munich...and continues through to the latest cowardly outrages in London and Bali.

Now I would suggest a critical self-examination would show why Muslims are, to use your term, 'easy game'. Most people, unlike you, don't generalise. They are quite specific in their criticiams and are not attacking Muslims generally. They are attacking Muslims who wish to undermine western values and freedoms. That's fair. They attack Islam as a religion that produces people who wish to undermine western values and freedoms. That's fair. They also attack hypocrasy in all it's forms. That's fair. In fact that's encouraged in the west.

It is unfair to judge, label and claim people hate Muslims because of their criticisms of aspests of Islam and because of their criticisms of the behaviour of some of Islam's votaries.

Millions haven't been killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. Most casualties in Iraq are a result of inter-sect Islamic hatred. Sunni-Shia animosity is being played upon by various Islamic terrorist groups.

Keith

Prejudice is the precursor to xenophobia. Prejudice means thinking ill of others without sufficient warrant, whilst xenophobia means having a morbid fear of foreigners.

Cheers
Kay

Keith,

With my deepest respect you are wrong when you say "That list in modern times starts with the outrage in Munich" have you forgotten that the Israelis used terrorism on the British in the then called Palistine. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
for one example.

Some Israeli's used this tactic in their efforts to get a homeland... see any similarities to the Palestinians? By the way it worked, eventually the nation of Israel was formed by dispossessing the Palestinians...

But terrorism has been going on since the year dot... I mean killing innocent people by any means is really terrorism... it's just bombs seem to make it easier.

Your other statement "Most casualties in Iraq are a result of inter-sect Islamic hatred" is also questionable. Sure the sects have been at each others throats for centuries but the bombs dropped on Iraq in the two gulf wars have killed many many innocents.

See http://www.iraqbodycount.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=5767a74fbe3001ad8469aa1847dec844&submit3=Enter+Site for some estimates>

As human beings we owe a duty to our fellow human beings who are Muslims. We must help them to deal with their unfortunate vulnerability to those who portray their prophet. To do this we must publish cartoons and images of the prophet at every opportunity. Every western newspaper, should as an act of human kindness, publish a daily cartoon which portrays the prophet. We should have regular television shows, art works, T-Shirts all showing the image of how we imagine the prophet to have looked. Images of the Prophet should adorn our products. Prophet coffee, Prophet burgers and possibly a pop group called the Prophets with the image displayed on the drum set and what ever else western imagination can come up with. If thousands of western newspaper are printing images of the prophet then it would be impossible to single any one publication out for particular attention. The objective is not to insult Muslims, but to help them. If we bombard them with images of the prophet then it will become impossible for them to be manipulated by extremists who take umbrage at any one particular image, come one come all.