[af_vet_rr]

There is a very clear Islamic analogue to that - this is the Islamic treatment of "dhimmis" who have submitted (or been forced to submit) to Islam. Even the "nice" cylons' approach was not "live and let live", it was submit to us because we know what's best for you, combined with a murderous religious fanaticism.

There aren't too many things they could do to be more clear about it, aside from calling the cylons' god "Allah".

When the Dean Stockwell Cylon was talkiong about instilling fear to convert humans, and executing them at random to make them fear the Cyclons, he could have said "Allah" and it would not have seemed out of place at all.

[thoughtomator]

When the Dean Stockwell Cylon was talkiong about instilling fear to convert humans, and executing them at random to make them fear the Cyclons, he could have said "Allah" and it would not have seemed out of place at all.

Exactly... and over the course of the series, that has consistently been the case.

I must confess, I own the entirety of the first two seasons of BSG on DVD, and I have read the Koran. So I have a pretty well-developed sense of what both are about, and it's stark raving clear to me that cylons represent Islam.

[burzum]

When the Dean Stockwell Cylon was talkiong about instilling fear to convert humans, and executing them at random to make them fear the Cyclons, he could have said "Allah" and it would not have seemed out of place at all.

Why didn't you think of the Romans or even the Nazis? Perhaps you are projecting your thoughts about the War on Terror onto this piece of science fiction?

[Wormwood]

When the Dean Stockwell Cylon was talkiong about instilling fear to convert humans, and executing them at random to make them fear the Cyclons, he could have said "Allah" and it would not have seemed out of place at all.

Note that Stockwell's goal wasn't converting the humans to the Cylon God. He was talking about imposing order.

To that effect, he counseled rounding up and excecuting insurgents, and failing that, exacting reprisals against the population as a whole.

That sounds eerily familiar to me.