""That is my position. It seems logical and reasonable to me. I know there are such as Bridge & Carroll & Wysiwyg who will purport to misinterpret it as an instance of the iniquitous R*C*SM word. Which it isn't.""

Not racism Mike! Religious bigotry, definitely!

Christianity also showed a definite lack of tolerance for those who did not belong.

Remember the thugs who went out with the absentee King Richard 1, or the Spanish Inquisition?

Where are the Cathars now?

Christianity too had its militants, every bit as nasty as Islamists.

They were dealt with, not by destroying Christianity, but by dealing with the terrorists (for that's what they were), and Christianity went on and grew out of its bad habits.

Islam can and will do the same, but not if we insist on tarin all Muslims with the same brush.

And one day somebody will have to clean up the right wing "Christians" in the USA.

Don T.