This is not an incendiary comment, but merely a statement of fact: Michael Graham was right about Islam, as confirmed from within the Muslim world.

You heard it here first at the Alpaca Burger Forum.

What a coincidence it is. On the same day Michael Graham is bounced off the air by the CAIR-fearing suits at WMAL radio for saying 'Islam is a terrorist organization,' MEMRI reports that a group of prominent Arab reformists say essentially the same thing.

As we summarized for you, a series of proposals said that Islam, as currently practiced and understood, needs major changes, even to the point of reevaluating the Koran and diminishing the authority of certain portions. This is important, Wittenburg Door stuff folks, so please go read it if you haven't already.

Far less oriented toward solving the problem are certain American Muslims: We still have in our midst prominent Imams who say the call for reform is 'alien' (and who are Jeddah-bound, we hope). Of course, CAIR issues its typical doublespeak, 'Hey, we've issued an unspecific, non-binding fatwa, what more do you want? We're NOT going to sell out our Hamas or al Qaeda brethren.'

Pay no attention to these bozos. They are only interested in preserving the freedoms of non-Muslims until such time as the Imams run the show.

I am no expert, but I've always felt the statement in the 2nd Sura that 'persecution is graver than slaughter' is a loophole wide enough to drive a car bomb through. If you're going to have a religion, allowing for murder when practitioners feel they are 'persecuted' seems like a pretty good formula for an absolutely horrific religion.

Yes, the Christian Bible contains passages justifying slaughter - in the part of the book we call the 'OLD' Testament, which was written long before and was based on a law explicitly denounced by the Founder of the 'NEW' Testament; which is, by the way, the entirety of 'Christianity.'

As a matter of fact, you could look at the current situation and say, 'Islam needs a New Testament.' Because their Old one has the same problems as the Christian one did. But - here's a novel idea - there already IS a New Testament, with absolutely NO slaughter prescribed, and maybe the Muslims could just adopt IT. That would pretty much solve the problem.

UPDATE: If you didn't happen to get referred here by Nikita, please refer to his post on this topic for much additional information and links.