Mojo_PeiPei, the "apology" I was writing about, had to do with suspecting that the owner of this site might not want to be bothered with the kind of trouble hosting an article like Sam Harris's might bring....which is the whole point of attempting to discuss a "religion of peace" whose members (not all it's members, but enough that it is a problem, and intimidates even members who object to the threats, into not actually objecting to the threats....) respond to criticism of the religion by issuing death threats.
If it is so difficult to criticize Islam, that the Washington Post even shies away from printing such criticism, why do so many in the US argue that there is not enough criticism and protest of islamic extremism, "from the inside"? The intimidation seems strong enough to silence powerful US corporate media. Why then, are individual muslims expected to publicly object to islamic extremism?
RetroGunslinger, would you be okay with a thread like this:
<a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=131429&highlight=cos">The Anonymous war on Scientology hits the streets</a> , that instead of protesting coS, protests islam, on it's merits and practices? Doesn't it seem that coS has been much less provocative than some who speak for islam have been, but has received a much more organized, grassroots backlash than islam has? Isn't one of the prime motivators in protesting against coS, the intimidation tactics it is known to use against it's critics?
Why does the spell checker here "red line" the word "christian" if the "C" is not capitalized, and the word "muslim" , if the "M" is not capitalized? It's 2008, hasn't enough blood been shed in the names of these "organized" religions, for a lot of us to take stock of their actual "helpfulness" in our own lives, and in the context of our societies, vs. the "trouble" that they bring to our lives?