Staying out of this in the main, esp as Jim appears to have gone before I could ask him for his take on Aayan Hirsi Ali.

But moved by

....Suppressing speech is completely appalling to us in America....
Joe Offer 0249 am

to ask Joe, simply as matters of fact, how [not all that] long it has been since Senator McCarthy's Congressional hearings? And which country, precisely, is Alabama in, whose Baptist community appears occasionally SFAICS to provoke accusations of a certain degree of intolerance?

~M~