Paul Burke, you do have a point. The West, namely USA, has been interferring in the business of other countries since the end of World War II. With the absence of any other ideology, Islam has found a place. Despite my loathing for George Galloway, I do support him for his stand against the Iraq War and his willingness to take the fight to America itself. Yes, the West has killed more people than Muslim bombers. I don't dispute this. However, that does not mean that I have to like Islam. South and Central America has been devistated by American foreign policy and these are mainly Catholic, not Muslim, countries. So why do Muslims think that the West is waging a war against Islam? The war is not against Islam but an attempt to control resourses and markets and that is how it should be viewed. To turn it into a religous war is just plain silly. You might just as well say that the overthrow of Allende was an attack on the catholic church.

Dave the Gnome.
A small faction of Muslims may be small, but their supporters are many. Palestinian Christian are fighting for the same thing that Palestinian Muslims want-namely, a Palestinian homeland. There may be many things uniting these bombers, but the one thing that they have in common is that they are all Muslims. I know viilence is not unique to Muslims, but it does strike me as a most violent religion. It is because of their religion that they think they will go to heaven afterwards and fuck loads of virgins.

You are right about me being the first one to band about insults, for which I apologise.

Lizzie, I do like muslims. I know many and have known many for some time. It is not them I dislike, but their religion and what it makes them do. The behaviour of Muslims is unforgivable, whether it is the support for the killing of Rushdie or the suppression of the publication of the "Danish" cartoons in this country by intimidation.

What is there in Islam that I need to understand? I know that non-believers, when they die, go to hell, have their skins burnt off, and then ALLAH puts on another skin so it can be burnt off again-and this goes on for eternity. What a C**T! And people worship this creature. I tought the Old Testement God was bad enough.