I'm an almost-good Catholic, and the religion of peace shit drives me up the wall. My neighbors are Muslim, I have great Muslim friends, my daughter has played with Mulsim children wince she was a baby, slept over at their house, and gone to mosque with them. There are plenty of Catholics, not to mention evangelicals et al. who I would hesitate to trust with my child in the same way.

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Screw all that. It's cheesy as hell, besides.

Oh give it a rest.

As if the Christian right desn't come in for a lot of undefended sarcasm these days.

I think it noncontroversial that Islam is infected with a virulent meme that needs to be neutralized one way or another.

"Give it a rest?" Is this a meme that I've been flogging?

Was I making a comparison to the Christian right? Like who has more "boo-hoo, I'm being picked on" stories?

Would it be appropriate for me to decry all Christians as hateful, murdering bastards because of the white supremecists and abortion clinic bombers that preach radical strains of Christianity? Or, more realistically, all Christians as mindless scolds because of the vocal humorless pricks that tend to be high-profile Christians?

Wahhabiism and Islamism are virulent, notable strains of Islam, and the religion does have an identity crisis, but the author of that blog didn't write that - he wrote a very sweeping condemnation of a "faith of death. This faith is Islam."

If you have a problem with me condemning that, just as I would criticize someone that attacked Christianity in such prejudicial, arrogant, hyperbolic and hateful terms, then you can pretty much go pound sand.

Well yes, but besides all that, why do people insist on holding these melodramatic, sugary, sappy, and just plain bad writings up as some really beautiful expression of the state of international current events?

just as I would criticize someone that attacked Christianity in such prejudicial, arrogant, hyperbolic and hateful terms

show me .... oh that's right anyone who claims that's happening is, ... oh ... what's the phrase ??? "boo-hoo, I'm being picked on".

The comparison to nut jobs you consider representative of the CR demonstrates your utter bias. The problem in Islam is more pervasive than a few nutters.

I'm not CR nor do I pretend to speak for them. I just comment on the anti-CR dreck which abounds aplenty all around.

boris -

oh that's right anyone who claims that's happening is, ... oh ... what's the phrase ??? "boo-hoo, I'm being picked on".

No, not "anyone," only dipshits that bring it up as an UNRELATED counterpoint to a post that criticizes leveling hopelessly sweeping and prejudicial condemnation of an entire, separate religion. One has little to do with the other, unless I endorsed one and not the other.

Either find some instance of me calling Christianity as a whole a religion of "hate" or some such equivalent, or shut up. Many of Christianity's most high profile folks are campaigning publicly as moral scolds and extremists, whereas the majority of Christians are no such thing. Quick - name the most high profile Christian leaders off the top of your head.

And most people that criticize Christianity in truly hyperbolic terms (like Andy Sullivan's ridiculous bitching about "evil Christian theocrats!") are getting pummeled regularly by people on the right, from folks as diverse as Instapundit all the way to the socially conservative Powerline.

You really are a consistently insufferable twit. You project YOUR nearly unrelated, cliched agenda and strawmen into most arguments, and start out your attacks with "give it a rest" or some such condescending pablum.

It is counterproductive for anyone to condemn the entire religion of Islam in a way that is interpreted as religious or cultural triumphalism or utter prejudice, and I am right to criticize this (for a variety of reasons, inclusive and totally practical), yet you turn it into some bizarre aggrieved Christian vs. Islam pissing match. Get a clue.

find some instance of me calling Christianity as a whole a religion of "hate" or some such equivalent, or shut up

Inartful dodge. My point was YOU show ME where you defend Christianity from such, as you have defended Islam.

Have not many leaders of that religion claimed their advantage is their love of death? And the Jews and Christians downfall is their love of life?