Religion should me mocked, problem is when you pick out only one and

[Ron Obvious]

11. In fact, it's the opposite of what's been happening

We can't seem to sound a single critical note about the uniquely awful problems with Islam without first saying we hate all religion, the crusades were awful, mentioning murdered abortion doctors, Fred Phelps, etc. Only then will even the mildest criticism of Islam be permitted without whipping out the Islamophobia and racism cards.

Don't believe there are specific problems with Islam today? Check out the opinion surveys of Muslims in the middle east and Europe, the state of women and minority rights in Muslim-dominated countries, and the completely over-the-top violent reactions in many parts of the world when even the mildest mockery of that extreme right-wing ideology, Islam, is made.

Bringing up thousand year-old history and isolated incidents involving Christians or Hindus is a deflection of the problem at hand, and betrays in inability to face the truth. Some of that mere cowardice. Some of that is misguided political correctness, in which a (presumed non-white) believer would get a pass the way, say, a Mormon never would, and some of that is the soft racism of the left, which will never expect to hold muslims to the same standards as it does anybody else.