Islam is a religion, not a race, so how am I racist? If I was to attack the neo-con religious right, would you say that I was filled with bile. I have said this elsewhere and I will say it again. I dislike Islam because of what it turns people into. Think of the fatwah against Rushdie and the silence of the majority of Muslims on the subject. Think of the bombings in Spain and London, not to mention the countless suicide bombers in Israel. Think of the murder of Theo van Gogh. Think of their barbaric practices, such as the stoning to death of adulterous in Muslim countries-or their gruesome public executions. Think how Muslims managed to intimidate this country into not showing those Belgium cartoons. Think how the left wing in this country derides the religious right and yet gives support to Muslims in this country, who often have an equally reactionary agenda.

We have to face up to Islam. To do otherwise is to bury our heads in the sand while they drag us into some medieval theocratic nightmare, out of which we might not awake.