Reply #72: First rule of hole digging: stop diggining.

[DrWeird]

"Plenty of people, intellectuals, scholars and layman (and the person who started the tsunami thread), use the term "Islamist" to distinguish peaceful islam from radical islam. It's in Wikipedia, for god's sake! :)"

Like I was saying, the only people who use it are rightwing pundits, pseudointellectuals, and islamophobes. Or combinations there of. The word itself is ridiculous from a grammatical sense.

As for Churchill, he was a blatant racist. You apologized for it. You're doing it again. But given your attitudes about bigotry, I doubt anybody's surprised.

"3) Yes, Daniel Pipes is an intellectual, whatever that means. But if being an author of many articles and books and attending one of the most prestigious schools in the country doesn't make you SOMETHING of an intellectual, I don't know what does. At least, in modern terms."

No, Daneil Pipes is a pseudointellectual, AND a rightwing pundit, AND an islamophobe. The fact that you hold him in esteem says a lot.

"4) Edited for one last post: Yes, attacking Christianity and Catholicism in particular, is vogue among the left. Beware of that. Traditionally, Catholics, myself included, have supported most progressive causes. But we will not take idiotic assault after assault on our faith. This is why the Republicans have a monopoly on religion in this country. They don't MOCK it! They embrace it. "

No, traditionally Catholicism is attacked by rightwing pundits and supremacists. Nobody's attacked the faith, just various specific members and for a very good and just reason. Your last statement is the most ridiculous one you've made yet. What republicans do is a mockery and a corruption of everything that Christianity stands for, from their support of the death penalty to their bigotry to their tax cuts for the rich.

Your statement about the 70 (sic) virgins is just one of your many self-contradictions.

Alas.