Thanks Steve. Muslims (and Arabs) are the official scapegoats of the West in the 21st century.


Well, given much Islamic rioting in was it Nigeria over a relatively inoccuous comment on the Prophet's possible approval of a beauty contest, world wide rioting over political cartoons, and such things as Holocaust cartoon contests and regular weekly "mar el Amerika" salaams, I think my hyperbole (if any) is derivative of my subject, not vice versa.

Except that it wasn't the innocuous comment that was the real reason for most of the anger and rioting. This has been discussed quite a bit on threads that were current at the time, and I gave my arguments about this subject on those threads. The real reason for most of the anger and rioting (as explained by those who were angry and rioting) was perceived discrimination. But it is a part of the orchestrated efforts at inspiring and spreading hatred towards Muslims generally that the media in western countries did not cover this aspect of it, and instead promoted the falsehood that it was about the "innocuous comment".


Sincere!

No accounting for taste, eh?


(That was irony, but not so much barbed as self deprecating.)


Anyway, thanks!


(But I still don't have time to play with you much. I have furniture that I need to make into art.)