I see the thread title was changed on March 26. Does this mean that the person who changed it thought he was not a Muslim, or was the person somehow offended by the term? Either way, I think it was poor judgement and misuse of the power to rename threads.

Sorry if I offended by calling a Muslim a Muslim. Maybe I should have said U.S. Muslim Sergeant, or maybe Sergeant from the U.S. professing the Muslim faith, or some other description which would probably be too long for the space allotted.

I repeat, changing the title was an incorrect judgement, and the person responsible should have to justify why it was done. If I start a thread titled "Chet Atkins was the world's greatest guitarist" and someone changes it to "Mudcatter thinks Chet Atkins was the world's greatest guitarist, but we, the Mudcat censors think he was merely one of many who are not quite as good as the one we like best" then I would be irritated. I don't see how this is any different. I expect if you were writing history books, you would expunge the term Muslim completely as being irrelevant.

Now to my main point for posting again. It is sad that a thread I started without comment garnered more posts than any music post I have responded to in two years. I am pretty much a centerist, and really think both sides of this argument and others like it are being extreme. It is no wonder that there is no peace in the world. People are too fond of taking pot shots at each other. There, now you can all commence taking pot shots at me, since I am in between you at the moment.

I think that nothing any of you has said in this thread and hundreds like it have caused others to budge even one centimeter from their beliefs.   That makes it pretty useless, and a complete waste of time. Mine is just as useless. I am sure I have not convinced even one of you that I am right, so I will quit and post no more to this thread. The others will no doubt continue to shoot at each other, and both sides will shoot at me. That is the way war goes. No one wins.