It seems to be mostly the Muslims doing all the hating.More bombs for the British in todays news.

Islam is basically a flawed system of thinking and Hirsti Ali must tour the world with an inadaquate security system,knowing full well that time is on the side of the Islamic Facists.One day they will get her and Irfan and his true believers will not shed a tear.It is the will of Allah.

I will try to condense this article. A Christian High School teacher, in Nigeria, on this day was supervising a class sitting for their final exams. So she in accordance with school procedures to prevent cheating collected all papers, books and bags and placed them in the front of the class. One of the girls began to cry she said she had a copy of the koran in her bag and now that the teacher had touched the bag she had desecrated the koran. Other students began shouting "allahu akhbar" (god is great)as these idiots are want to do. The entire school was in an uproar by now and moslem extremists came in from outside dragged this teacher out and clubbed, beat and stoned her to death. The copy of the supposed desecrated koran was not produced.
So again the brave and fearless warriors of allah/islam all together slew a defenceless woman. The question - If one of us Australian pigs or monkeys should find a lost koran and we pick it up would this terrorist's/suicide bomber's manual become desecrated and would/could we be killed by some psychotic insane pagan moslem. {the article is from a brochure printed by 'Open Doors' a Christian (monkey)organisation. Regards, numbat

numbat writes: "The entire school was in an uproar by now and moslem extremists came in from outside dragged this teacher out and clubbed, beat and stoned her to death. The copy of the supposed desecrated koran was not produced."

Neither produced in numbat's report was the Muslim principal who hid the teacher in his office and was himself almost clubbed to death for protecting her. Who is more representative of religion and common sense? The teacher? or the headmaster?

When there was a bullying scandal at a Canberra Catholic school, who was regarded as more representative of Catholicism? The kids who did the bullying? Or the management who tried to stop it?

Some people are just determined to see a giant Islamist conspiracy even where one doesn't exist. Hence they'll link a Somali-born athiest who believes in locking up people who teach creation science to a teacher in Nigeria clubbed to death by fanatical students.

It doesn't take much intelligence to hate.

Arjay: "It seems to be mostly the Muslims doing all the hating"

From what I read daily here on OLO that is a patently untrue statement. We have a small number of very reasonable Muslims who write articles and comments here that attempt to explain aspects of their faith as it relates to various issues - e.g. the Hirsi Ali 'roadshow'.

On the other hand we have numerous people - usually commentators rather than article authors - who take every opportunity to jump on moderate Muslims with various degrees of vitriol and warped reasoning, and to vilify Islam in frequently obnoxious terms.

Personally, from the relatively superficial understanding I have of them, of the monotheistic religions I find Islam even more objectionable than, for example, Christianity or Judaism. But not by much in substantive terms - they are all ultimately hocus pocus, if fabulously allegorical and meaningful to their adherents.

It's when the activities of the faithful impinge upon the rest of us that religions are at their worst, and I think that internationally Islam seems to be causing more problems than Christianity lately. Judaism seems relatively benign except for when it's combined with Zionism.

Hirsi Ali could possibly make a useful poster girl for secular humanism, except that she's just as likely to become a Buddhist or Scientologist next. Who knows, perhaps she can reinvent her past yet again? It's possible that she was abducted by Aliens from Somalia and deposited in the Netherlands, with implanted false memories...

I know - she's actually a female Messiah! Wouldn't that make a good movie?

coach

"Isn't defending your faith the same as promoting it?" Of course not, what makes you think that?

numbat

"The Christian Christ is the Son of God and there's over 300 prophecies about Him in the Old Testament, all fulfilled. " There are no such prophecies although the Church tried hard to mistranslate the OT to pretend that there were.

Perhaps Moses didn't speak to God either. Religion is a personal thing, when F-H tells us that Islam is starting to undergo a reformation, why not extend to him the courtesy to explain and present his point? The Islamic faith did have a golden period, OK you can find faults with it but human progress is slow and Islam was once in the vanguard. Why can it not do it again?

Muslims are humans. be ready to differentiate between the good and bad in any group. And I have met FH and he is no idealist in a cloud, he is a successful businessman.

Irfan has just proven yet again that Islam is by definition sexist.

What really irritates Irfan is that a women has shown real individualism and asserted her rights as a free women over the religion of Islam.

It is bad enough to Irfan that Hirsi Ali is an apostate, but a women apostate! To the Islamic mind this is unthinkable, even to someone as Westernised as Irfan.

Get used to it Irfan. Women can think, and think intellectually. Indeed, the leap from Islam to atheism shows great intellect, and honest intellect at that. Most Muslims, like yourself, are dishonest cowards and won't admit that Islam, and monotheism generally, are the greatest intellectual frauds ever burdened on humanity.

I hope that Hirsi Ali serves as an example to every Muslim who knows in their heart that Islam is NOT true and wants to do something about it. This perhaps will be her true legacy.