It's difficult to know where to start with this piece of pure demagoguery (a political strategy for obtaining and gaining political power by appealing to the popular prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public...).

It's one thing to fight what you perceive as misrepresentation of tenets of Islam - by all means, do so and challenge critics of your religion. But one wonders what 'your rules' might be. Is a non-Muslim allowed to pass an opinion about the articles of the Muslim faith? What will you do if a non-Muslim says "I find that belief to be objectionable"? 'Our' ground rules for this 'game' (it isn't a game) would be impassioned, impartial academic, secular research by historians, archeologists and exegetes and would allow the same level of scrutiny of the Koran as the Christian and Jewish Bibles have undergone. But men and women of blind faith can't handle that level of scrutiny. It's all very well to say "My faith is one of peace and love to all"...but there is enough evidence to suggest the case might be otherwise...certainly enough to warrant a discussion about it without the threat of being shouted down.

here is one for you "Naseby" scrutiny this if you remember the 1st gulf war operation desert storm 1991 then subsequent invasion 2003,

thats roughly 12 years of propaganda waged by likes of BBC,ITN,SUN newspaper and so on, against muslims in IRAQ plus world over inbetween we has 9/11 aswell,

so you see the point fellow writer is trying to make is that people get murderous after long media campaign,

writer does say you not got the right to question but simply saying "are you stupid enough to believe every single piece of information you receive,

by the way is you trying to impress us with your PHd style of writing,

this not your school science project mate it's comments page

Mpac you sound like your in denial, "how could we muslims ever be wrong about what our religion is we have been weened on islam and this is our indentity, if we are now to have to look at what islam realy says(as we dont know cos we rely on what we were told) and we find out its a nasty horrible ideology thats the opposite of what we thought it was, ie Teleban, al quaeda, islamic jihad, ect then how can we ever accept this"?............. you tel me.

To further my point if you study todays media what you will find Iraq no longer makes headline news, attention shift towards Pakistan is gaining momentum

so the writer suggests we must fight demonizing of minority groups living in england because we know where we stand consider no WMD's but Tony Blair still makes third time lucky as prime minster and people boast about million man march,

media used as tool to achieve manpulation of masses to achieve goal isolate one religion and attack it,

all very clever
i am not shouting down at you naseby

Mitsubishi:

I thought the first Gulf War (and the second - or so we are told) was all about oil. You calim it was all "against Muslims in Iraq" - so which was it - a war over oil or a war against Muslims?

And if my manner of speaking/writing bothers you I suggest you have a problem not me. We're not all grunting text-language users in this country. In fact it's people's lack of ability to read/write correctly that we have led to so many social/moral/political/economic problems. Freedom of thought and intellectual enrichment come through education and being able to express complex ideas as succinctly as possible. Punctuation. That's another thing which aids communication.