Picture this one, if you can.   An atheist is released from prison and a hundred catholic priests march in the street calling for the man's death for the crime of apostasy.   It could happen.   It really could, provided that the year was 1500, 95% of the population was enslaved in serfdom, and the church held total sway over government.   That hasn't been the case in the western world for centuries.   But it is still the way things are in the Muslim world.

Yesterday hundreds of Muslim CLERICS took to the streets chanting "Death to Christians!"   They did not call for death to one criminal.   They did not call for death to one Christian convert.   They called for death to all Christians.   They might just as well have called for death to Jews, Christians, atheists, agnostics, Hindus, etc.   That is what they meant.

Had Abdul Rahman declared that he was a Darwinist, a secularist, an agnostic or atheist, the same clerics would have marched in the street calling for his death.   Had he joined the ACLU and spoken out against Christmas trees in the public square, they would have wanted him executed by the state.   Had he been an international voice calling to abolish the teaching of Intelligent Design, they would have hated him equally.   They called for his death because he was not Muslim.

And these are the religious leaders of the people.   They are not merely orators seeking public support for their candidacy for elective office.   They are not seeking to build a movement the way Hitler was in pre-Nazi Germany.   These are the teachers.   These are the instillers of values.   These are the judgers of morality for one quarter of the population of the world.

Do you now see that we are really at war?   Do you now see what Islam is all about?   Are you still concerned about playing loud music in prisoner of war camps?   Are you still outraged by the placing of the Qu'ran on a toilet seat or the use of dogs to humiliate prisoners?   Are you ashamed that your government listens in to some phone calls?   Does it concern you that our soldiers are harsh to the populace?

The truth is we in America are far more unified than anyone ever supposed.   Many of us have one thing in common, we are non-Muslim and, as a result, we are equally hated by the Muslim world, by the leaders of the Muslim people.   Still we consume our time arguing about whether we should allow every blessed soul who wishes to enter this country illegally to enter free of any scrutiny.   We argue about whether our treatment of detainees from the BATTLEFIELD should be granted rights under our Constitution, a Constitution they would like torn down, ripped to shreads and trampled beneath their feet.

What complete and total madness.