OK, seriously then, Jim. I appreciate the force of much of what you have to say, even if I don't agree with all of it. But I genuinely don't feel it appropriately placed on this thread, whose purpose is manifestly to draw attention to the plight of certain communities who are in need of help and succour, not one about the comparative iniquities of various religious groups, to be set up against one another in a sort of league table of abuses, in an attempt to denigrate all religions. We all know what you think on that head. You know that I am largely in agreement with you, in this respect at least. But it not an attempt at censorship or any sort of bullying or obstruction to point out that this is not the place to make these points, intrinsically valid & valuable as they may be. There are many other threads more fitting for such a purpose, where they will not dilute the urgent message intended to be conveyed in this one.

Can you really not see that? Forget the point-scoring and attend to the plight of those currently, right-now, at-this-very-moment, oppressed and endangered communities.

~M~