You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

People out there ACTUALLY believe this. Perhaps we should set them up in a warm and religiously open society like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia or the Sudan. Their independent, free wheeling liberal ideas and lifestyles will be welcomed with open arms. They'll no longer have to live so oppressed by the 'moral majority' in the West. They will at last have found their freedom.

Nothing to Fear from Bin Laden; Bush Is the Enemy in Edinburgh

A quote from The Independent, 5 August 2007 We have nothing to fear from al-Qa'ida. Christian fundamentalists are the real extremist threat. That's the message from the writers of a new play being shown at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. […] The writers said that, while there is public discussion about the dangers of radical Islamic groups, the influence of the Christian far right is underestimated. "I've been very sensitive to extremists in other religions, particularly Islam, being demonised," said Badham. "I find the Christian right groups that are enormously powerful in our own culture a larger numerical threat than extreme Islam. […] Bush is from the religious right and he has the bomb; that terrifies me far more than the potential of other extremists to get their hands on nuclear weapons. In the religious right it is the self-appointed moral majority that sets its own rules, and anybody opposing them is labelled unpatriotic and shouted down."