Makes fun of the three major cults spawned in the middle east: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
Christianity and Judaism are much more moderate, and while many practitioners of these religions are balanced enough to know that secularism and separation of church and state are absolutely essential, a growing number seem to have a desire to transform the USA into a dark age theocracy.
One of the fundamental flaws of many modern countries is the assumption that religion is somehow special. That it needs to be accommodated, and that no critical discussion can occur regarding its veracity.
Religion is no different than any other belief separated from reality, if there is no evidence to support a belief, logic dictates a skeptical stance. Divorcing oneself from reality is not healthy, see Sharia law.
Our accommodation of beliefs separate from reality means that large numbers of our population think we must allow that Islam, of which some branches posses a dark age perspective on basic human rights, be given the same privileges as other religions. This leads down a potentially very dark path, what is to stop Islam from spreading until it has a majority in Europe? What follows? Repeal of basic human rights? Woman go back to being second class citizens?
Why risk this? The more logical path is to reduce the privileges given to ALL religions, thus reducing the impact of Islam, and any other fatally flawed religions that might crop up in the future. By privileges I mean such things as tax breaks, letting believers break certain laws/rules because they 'go against their religion', and the general assumption that clergy are useful/good and so should be given wide berth(clergy are some of the scummiest people on Earth).
Liberal democracy, the foundation of the West, and fundamentalist religion are simply not compatible.
From Wikipedia:
In 2010 a United States diplomatic leak published by Wikileaks showed that a survey conducted by the UK Center for Social Cohesion on 600 muslim students at 30 universtities showed that 32 % supported murder in the name of Islam and that 40% want Sharia law in the United Kingdom.[28]
If that isn't fucking scary I don't know what is.
It will be interesting to see just what happens in Egypt, can they actually create a secular and humane society, in other words, a true liberal democracy? Or will it be, as seems more likely, a theocracy posing as a democracy? I certainly hope they succeed-- but Islamic history indicates this has a fat chance in hell.
