[Acrylic-bob]

It doesn't seem to take much to get on the wick of adherents of the "religion of peace" and have hundreds of them out on the streets in facile protest, burning flags and killing each other in the frenzy of their righteous indignation. Can you imagine the same sort of behaviour from a bunch of offended Anglicans? No, neither can I.

Religious tolerance and respect for the difference in personal belief is all very well, and is something I would heartily give my support to. But it is a sad and inescapable truth that, in certain parts of the world, such tolerance and respect is only ever a one-way street.

On a slightly different tack, if you will forgive the thread wander, I noticed today that the BBC were reporting that the Heroin Poppy crop in Afghanistan had increased this year. I note also that the Koran specifically forbids intoxication as sinful. It also places a stricture on believers not to become the occaision for another to fall into sin.

Religion, of whatever stripe or flavour, is poisonous stuff, and the sooner humanity grows up and puts it away, the better it will be for all of us.