ANTpogo
Well said.
you can't talk about how one religion is particular evil in a hierarchy of evil religions without detailing the comparison that led you to that conclusion.
The "war on Islam"-mongers know this perfectly well, and their complaints about ad hominem, strawmen, why are Islamophiles attacking Christianity in a thread devoted to the evils of Islam, I don't understand the relevance of your remarks, what are you getting at, etc etc, are simply so many cynical devices intended to avert to a reasoned argument they are not even interested in, let alone have any prospect of winning.
Imagine we start a thread in an astronomy forum - subject: Venus is the brightest planet. You contribute a post to the effect that you saw Jupiter last night and it looked really bright too. But you get denounced. This thread is about Venus, not Jupiter; you must be some kind of "Jovophile" even to mention Jupiter, and so on.
In effect, that's what the warmongers are saying. They're not serious. They're not that stupid; it's a concealment strategy, a smokescreen.
Like Bill Thompson saying that the USA has been at war against Islam, against Muslims "practicing the direct commands of the Koran", when the US government was careful to assert the exact opposite. It was fighting pirates who happened to be Muslims, and who had some sort of protection deal going with the ruler of Tripoli. (Caribbean pirates of the 18th century happened to be mainly Christians, as if it makes any difference.) Presumably the Turks with whom the USA was not at war, because Turkey wasn't a nest of pirates, weren't practicing the direct commands of their own religion, and therefore weren't real Muslims.
But enough! They spout such nonsense merely because they want to foment hostility against Muslims among the less well-informed part of the population of the USA. Unlike the government of the United States in 1797, they do in fact have
enmity against the laws, religion or tranquillity of Musselmen.
