Pretty powerful stuff. And does he --the speaker--realize he could now be the subject of a--I think they call it a Fatwa--whereby he can be killed by one of the faithful with impunity?

Who was the writer?--Salman Rushdie--who had to go into hiding to stay alive just because he wrote a"fictional" version of some never before seen suras.

We've really got ourselves some high class friends over there in the Persian Gulf. Uh-Oh I retract that. They are no longer over there--they are over here!!!

My visceral reaction is to be pissed off at the "entitlement mentality" and smug superior attitude of spokespeople of this religion. I have a much more intense "reaction" to them than I do to the "religious right" in this country. They don't seem to want to grant the same "tolerance" they demand of others.

As I write this, the top ad on the sidebar is headlined "Islam Women For Dating". It's a matter of time, and not much time.

Nothing can defeat the country that invented the drive-in movie, hot dogs and drag racing. American culture permeated Japan, one of the world's most insulated cultures in its day, in less than forty years.

We could beam free Cinemax and HBO, especially the "Adult Channels", into those countries and air drop tons of Krystal hamburgers into their cities. Sure, the nuts wouldn't like it, but I guarantee the regular guys would kill the nuts.

Take away my Sports Center *and* my HBO? Give it a shot, Achmed!

Dallas:

EXCELLENT IDEA!!!!

Thank you. I look forward to my highly-paid consultant position with the Department of Defense.

Um, no high paid consultant job for you :-P

Krystal. Harumph. If you'd said White Castle, the job would be yours.

Aw, man! ....so close...I should have remembered that DoD has an East Coast bias!