Excellent thread :) In any democracy- for EVERY position a person can take there is ALWAYS someone else to disagree. From outright attacks to satire. This is inherent to and the advantage of free thinking peoples. The lack of outrage in the Islamic communities over the treatment of infidels" darn near eliminates any sympathy which could have been given. The very fact of calling us infidels' has dehumanized us. Creating an atmosphere of hate and intolerance in the Muslim world. You can kill us because we are not your kind of believers and thus have condemned souls. Making us expendable in there world.' Where was the outrage when a mans head is cut off and shown on TV all over the Muslim world? Crying and begging and screaming in pain as the knife sliced his skin and muscles and tendons. Down to the bone. And all that time he was STILL ALIVE. Where was the Muslim outrage? That done by governments and that done by INDIVIDUALS are two different things. The Barbaric actions of individuals in the Islamic world are at least as equally reprehensible as ANYTHING that the government has done at Abu Grave(sp?) prison. The peoples of the west have/are taking action to stop it. Yet in the Islamic theater of influence no broad public outrage over the treatment of infidels is forthcoming. No protest, no riots, no religious leaders have stepped forward to condemn any of it. Only on western television at the continuous prompting of the interviewer has the occasional' timid half apology been given with qualifiers. The need for respect so often given by middle east experts' may have some validity. But this is NOT the way to achieve it.

NO, you are not asking for our respect, you are demanding our SUBMISSION!