"I'm an infidel bitch and even I know that Mohammed married Aisha at six and violated her when she was 9."

Amy, that needs to be a T-shirt: "I'm an infidel bitch!" lol Seriously, they'd sell like hotcakes.

Okay, just give me 10% for the idea....and one for myself and all my gfs. :)

I wish I had time to make t-shirts. I have a lot of lines I could put on them.

"If you support public stonings of adulterers and homosexuals, but privately sodomize little boys...you might be a Taliban."

I've subscribed to your blog for awhile. Although I don't always agree with you, I've found most of your posts to be reasonable and thought out. The exception has been your posts about Islam. Some of your criticisms are valid, but it is unreasonable to paint 1 billion people with the same broad, extremely harsh brush. Some Christian scripture, history, and even some current practices (Death penalty for homosexuals in Uganda)are as objectionable, yet you save your condemnation for Muslims. I say this as a cultural Christian. I will unsubscribe.

Amy, I completely agree. It scares me how many people want to sweep this under the carpet and not see how vile it really is.

Possibly the most civilized, yet sure, observation that Islam is unhinged is its refusal to acknowledge the value of women as partners in achievement.

Hey, Achmed? Wanna know why you still live in a stone hut? You're working by yourself, and you carry a load which could be borne by a willing partner rather than property.

And a competent partner would be close to your own age, so that you may grow together. I don't care what you've been told by Mohammed or any other religious figure - you cannot love property as you can a benefactor who returns it!

Next time you see a COEXIST bumpersticker, think of the crescent moon as Pacman and the rest as the little dots you where supposed to pick up with Pacman.

Truth hidden in a bumpersticker. Who knew?

Also, there's a Turkish proverb that says when you speak the truth, keep one foot in the stirup.

Interesting conflict here. I like the state to stay out of private sex lives.

Until recently, the age of consent was 12 in Canada, but the do-goodies got together and had it raised. In the USA, marriage as early as 14 was common in the Midwest and South until just two generations ago. Many countries have age of consent at 16, having upped it from 14 years back.

Okay, so we can say that teenage sex and marriage has been acceptable in many cultures, even our own, until recently. So getting huffy about teenage sex is rather narrow-minded. We embraced teenage sex and even teenagers having children just a few years back.

That brings us to nine-year-old girls, ala Islam. I would say sex before puberty is probably not good, if one of the participants is an adult. If children are having sex games, then no place for the state to get involved.

I've subscribed to your blog for awhile. Although I don't always agree with you, I've found most of your posts to be reasonable and thought out. The exception has been your posts about Islam. Some ... Muslims. I say this as a cultural Christian. I will unsubscribe. -- Peter at April 23, 2011 8:19 AM

Let's do some comparisons here:

Matthew Shepard -- beaten and essentially crucified by "Christian" ant-gay idiots. The local community held a candle light vigil and worked to get hate crime laws passed. (I'll disagree on the hate crimes laws, but the community reaction was positive.)

Koresh and the Branch Davidians -- The way they died was horrible. Out of the other millions of Christians in the United States reacted and did something from it. Only Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols did anything about it.

Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols: McVeigh showed no remorse and went to the more agnostic side. How many people helped out the victims, and how many sided with McVeigh?

9/11 attack: How many Muslims were dancing in the street in joy that the great Satan was being punished? That is not an act of a civilized culture.

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/04/15/islamic-family-honor-selling-daughters-into-sex-slavery-for-sheep/

I found this video, it is heartwrenching. Little girls that in our country would be giggling with their friends at school are sold to horny old goats, then replaced when the bastards beat them to death, or they die in childbirth.

Screw that noise. There's a helluva difference between little Bobby getting jiggy with little Susy, and 60 yr old Hairy Bastard dry-raping Susy raw every night til she dies. And making her keep house during the day too.

You INSENSITIVE-conservative-Western-imperialists are overlooking the obvious cultural difference:

Arab men have tiny weenies.

You INSENSITIVE-conservative-Western-imperialists are overlooking the obvious cultural difference:

Arab men have tiny weenies.

(waiting for luj to tie child marriage to circumcision in 5... 4... )

I am an atheist so I don't have an invisible man in the fight but it is clear that not all religions are equal. Just look at the prophets we are to emulate. Jesus lead an exemplary life by almost any objective standard. Mohammed on the other hand committed pretty much every vile and depraved act one can think of from rape, to slave taking, to murder of a nursing mother for the crime of mocking him, to beheadings and forced conversions. Pedophilia was just the most well known of his crimes. So yes, religion is always a form of insanity but in Islam's case it is a criminal insanity. The fact 1 billion people practice Islam is no more testimony to its worth than the fact that there used to be millions of Nazis running around.

The fact is that there is no civilized country where Mohammed would be allowed to walk free --- and no country can claim to be civilized where Jesus could not walk free.

The bible has God doing a lot of unacceptable things but the Koran also accepts that those things happened since you can add plagiarism and unoriginality to Mo's crimes. The difference is only in the prophets of the two religions and in the fact that Islam also is a code of law that requires its followers to do barbaric things.

Osama sought to teach us a lesson about Islam on 9/11 but the one we learned is not the one he intended. We learned the truth.

"The fact is that there is no civilized country where Mohammed would be allowed to walk free --- and no country can claim to be civilized where Jesus could not walk free."

Really like that. And it's very true.

We have a tall, thin, long-haired guy here who walks the roads with plastic bags on his head and body. We call him "Plastic man". My daughter used to beg me to pick him up, and give him a ride, because he looks tired and thirsty. She said, "What if he's Jesus...just testing us?"
I thought, "Mmmmm, Jesus with plastic bags on his head?"

Yet, in the spirit of Jesus, we tried to offer him some help. He smiled, said nothing, and just kept walking. Later, the local paper ran a piece on him. Turns out he's taken a vow of silence and is on some recycling crusade. He lives off handouts from a local (christian) church. In turn for keeping up their yard, they feed him and let him sleep in their bldg.

The point is that he's free here, and people reach out to help him. I'm willing to bet his fate wouldn't be the same in an Islamic country. Wouldn't he be jailed or stoned for being a weirdo?

And, more importantly, if he was, would anyone speak out against it?

Give them hell !! Islam = Nazi. The Nazi's used the master race cover. Islams use the master religion cover.

I keep waiting, hoping and praying that some group of Islamic women in those countries REALLY pays attention to how their men operate their guns. Then, one or two of these women flip the f*ck out and kill some men with the guns (or poison) ... which inspires other women to do the same. Which starts a gender civil war. Which eventually results in gender rights.

But that never seems to happen.

Why would you quote a hatemonger as an expert on Islam or Muslims, Amy? Would you go to a Nazi to find out about Judaism? Here's Southern Poverty Law Center's report on Robert Spencer & co (SPLC is the leading authority that monitors hate groups in America): http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/summer/jihad-against-islam