I had hoped not to wade back into this mire, but Arizona Atheist has persistently misrepresented my view in a very egregious way, and is taking to deleting my responses.<\/p>\n
What his smear consists of is a persistent and gross innuendo that my hostility to Islam stems from an unexplained bias against Arabs. \u00a0That very neatly relieves him of any obligation to know anything about the long history of the argument about Islam and its conflicts, and that is of course why he makes it (when persistently addressed in such a tone, do not think I will not respond in kind).<\/p>\n
Exhibit A in his case, indeed his only exhibit in his case, is the following post<\/a>. \u00a0As anyone who reads the post can see, I twice stress the fact that I would be happy to grant a blanket asylum to all Egyptian copts, who happen to be Arabs themselves. \u00a0The reason I am opposed to Sweden’s psychotic policy is that mass Muslim immigration to Europe has lead to violent anti-Semitism, the curtailment of freedom of speech, repeated attacks on gays, a resetting of women’s rights to pre-medieval levels and so forth. \u00a0None of these, incidentally, qualify as “terrorism”<\/p>\n