""But it is not only one side that cherry-picks. I ,in fact, respond merely to the cherry-picks of the other side.""

With the utmost respect Mike, that is precisely the problem.

Some rabid, half mad, Mullah fills the heads of impressionable young men with hatred based on cherry picking a tiny part of the Q'ran and treating it as if it were the whole message.

You respond by doing the self same cherry pick, and use it equally dishonestly to blacken the whole religion.

What, would you say, is the difference between that and blackening the Catholic religion by quoting the excesses of the inquisition, an argument which has been discredited and dismissed?

Don T.