Why appeasing Muslim fanatics won't work

Found at rumcrook’s tavern: We don’t make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity. — Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, head of the al Muhajiroun group in London.

OK, fine. Now I'm blogging about OSM

And how silly the idea is. At least I’m not alone in my opinions. I find comfort in that… A Stitch in Haste Meta-Blogging: PajamasSpectrumMediaBloggers: The consensus seems to agree with me (one example here). The death of PajamasMedia looks like a question not of if, but when.

Darwin, religion, endless debates

found via Balloon Juice… The Y Files: Darwin and religion: Incidentally, that is what makes ID a fundamentally non-scientific enterprise: not that it is driven by religion, but that it is driven by ideology.