Monkey Media Report has a couple of nice little rants, with great links, regarding the religious right's warped view of both Christianity and Islam.

One more time, for the money Virginia's Family Policy Network is suing the University of North Carolina again. This time it's for - can you believe it? - daring to hold an Islamic Awareness Week. UNC's student-run Daily Tar Heel suggests the school really couldn't ask for better publicity, but the same could probably be said for FPN. The ongoing harassment over legal issues they surely know they can't win is starting to look mighty suspicious. Donations must have really poured in last summer after Limbaugh and O'Reilley jumped on board. ("See? I told you it's better than homosexuals!") [read more]

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Christianity is an inherently more noble religion than Islam? Tell it to the Irish The British takeover of Ireland is filled with some of the most bloodthirsty religious lunacy you'll find at any time in human history. Here's how one British historian described Queen Elizabeth I's scorched-earth policy against Irish Catholics during the late 1500s:

The suppression of the native race...was carried on with a ferocity which...has seldom been exceeded in the page of history...[It] was literally a war of extermination...Not only the men, but even the women and children who fell into the hands of the English, were deliberately and systematically butchered...Year after year...all means of human subsistence were destroyed, no quarter was given to prisoners who surrendered, and the whole population was skillfully and steadily starved to death. [read more]