Even when I agree with them, there's something off-puttingly presumptuous and autoerotic about these men who shoot their own faces with these home video cameras and share their impassioned beliefs.

Hokey AND creepy: A twofer for the internet age.

(And that includes that lissome, pouty sex blonde from Romania or wherever who you link to sometimes.)

Can't they get some rudimentary imagery together for these little shows? Hold up magazines photos, or paper dolls of Barry & Michelle or something? Does it have to be their own ultra-sincere mugs?

Yes, he does seem pompous. But I think we can all agree that it shouldn't be illegal to crticize any religion or belief system.

Ultimately, it all comes down to fear. Look what happened in Denmark when that cartoon came out. I agree that it *shouldn't* be illegal to criticize any religion or belief system.

Also, point of interest, but today marks the 26th anniversary of the bombing of the Beirut barracks in Lebanon. Islamofacism isn't a new thing, people. They've been at war with us for some time now.

To the fallen heroes of that attack, may you rest in peace. Semper Fi.

Yeah, over 200 years they've been at war with us. All the way back at least to the Barbary Pirates, late 1790s. Go read some of the things the Founders and their contemporaries had to say about the "Mohammedans". "Isn't a new thing" is right.

Oh, it is much older than that. There were the crusades, there was the invasion of Spain, there was Charles Martel, and even before Christianity and Islam ever existed, there were the battles between the Romans and the Phoenicians.

Shut up America!
Just shup, the hell, up!

How dare we, as Americans, think that just because we continue to throw 10k + troops per year (How many "surges" is this now?) at the Muslim world, in the attempt to bring peace and, you know, not blowing each other up, to a ridiculously corrupt and mysogonist society,that these things would give us the right to poke fun at them every once in a while?

Its outrageous, I tell you.

No, you may NOT criticize the Muslim religion.
Just sit down, continue to funnel money into our provinces by the truckload, and give us more journalists and soldiers to maim and murder for glory, and dont talk about making fun of us again.