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Liberal dunderheads would label me "islamaphobic." But, if I were to dress up in a tailored Nazi SS dress uniform and then walked into a Wal-Mart to do my grocery shopping, it would likely create a furor, certainly.

What's at question is, of course, the nature of "religion," and whether its defined all neat and tidy like the IRS insists it must be, and can be categorized and separated out from that part of the public square underway on public school grounds, or whether Religion is, in fact, no more complicated than an individual's "Worldview." I favor the latter, as the broadest possible definition and can give credence to, so-called, "atheists" as a proper religion, but not, on the other hand, to those who insist on promoting something they fancy "a religion of no-religion," their so-called "freedom from religion," which is simply ridiculous, to my way of thinking, i.e., when people choose not to decide, they still have made a choice.

A religion can, therefore, be an ideology of a kind that feeds upon those classically vulnerable to the appeal of mass movements, forming a mass movement from the same human capital that fed the growth of the Cult of Hitler and, without seeming end, the communists.

Hitler found his best recruits, he said, from among his most violent opponents, precisely because the same vulnerabilities, including (but not limited to) the propensity for self-sacrifice, the passion to escape from a self believed irretrievably ruined.

Put simply, I see no difference between the outward dress and stance of Islam and those of Nazi Germany. The branch of the former seen today is, in fact, a branch of the latter. When I, therefore, see the elaborate or simple "burka" adornment, I see a Nazi uniform, and, more and more I am tempted to confront such individuals publically, embarrassingly, just as I would a brown shirt of the "Illinois Nazis."

They deserve public sanctions, and people brave enough to call them out, because of their public statement in the form of dress. They need to be on the defensive as individuals, in the marketplace, without the ludicrous pretense of everything being "okay."

I'll wager nine out of ten of my fellow shoppers would stand back, but at the same time have to acknowledge that they were not "cool" with being in the presence of wonton fascists.

- written in haste, headed out the door.