Islam is a religion, not a race, so how am I racist?

Pure pedantry, Penguin Egg. You know full well that both religious and racial predjudice are encompassed in the term racist.

In answer to your question about a Moslem bomber blowing up a bus full of Israeli schoolchildren. No you are not supposed to keep silent. But why go into details of the perpetrators religion? After all, as you say, Islam is just a religion. Religions in themselves cannot do any harm. It is the people that do the damage. Why not just refer to these evil doers as bombers or murderers and leave religion out of it? Unless you just want to create bad feeling against that religion?

The other interesting thing about statistics, Giok, is that they can prove that nearly 50% of people are below average intelligence:-)

Cheers

DtG