Well, I’m proud to say that I did publish the Danish cartoons, and if that means a Fatwah will come raining down on me, so be it. I doubt I’m significant enough, but hey, who knows? Salman Rushdie probably wasn’t expecting a contract on his life, but then again, who is? It’s not the Dark Ages after all, right? Freedom of speech and all that–freedom of expression….

Ah, but I forgot…Muhammad is exempt from the standards to which all other political and religious and public figures are held. We can do whatever we like with Jesus, Gandhi, Bush, Blair, Buddha, et al but if we draw a bomb in the Prophet’s turban, well then! No more Legos for Muslim children! Burning flags only!

This all speaks to the general hypocrisy of Muslims and the Islamic movement as a whole. While every other citizen of the world is required to tiptoe around all things Islamic, respect every oppressive Islamic custom, deal with Islamist threats to native culture, standards and so forth, we are not allowed to send any anti-Islamic message back.

The excuse is always the same: “Oh, it’s not Islam that is to blame, it’s a few bad apples! That’s all.”

Well there are bad apples in every group and every religion, but I have yet to find another example of a religion that has spawned quite so many suicide bombers. And women haven’t been so repressed since the witch hunts as they are in places like Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan.

So perhaps there is something inherently wrong with the religion. Perhaps we shouldn’t blame the bad apples. Could it be that they went bad because they were fed bad ideas, and made to believe in a poisonous faith? I am distrustful plenty of the Evangelical movement in Christianity, because it blindly accepts its tenets, and is willing to resort to hateful means at times, and even violence, to further its goals. Islam is almost entirely “evangelical.”

No, I believe that Muslims would be better off as Atheists, Pagans, or Buddhists. Imagine if Israel had been set up in the middle of a dozen or so Buddhist countries? Do you think any of this mess would be happening then? I sincerely doubt that Buddhists, allowed to live freely in a Democratic nation would start blowing themselves up on public buses.

So, is it about bad apples my friends? Or does the problem lie in the roots.

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Kain's major subjects of focus at NeoConstant are international strategy; support of Israel; the failure of the international community to stop genocide; the spread of American power and democracy; historical analysis; and current events both domestically and abroad. He writes here, Newsvine and his blog, IndiePundit.