In any other time this story line would not matter but with the war on islamicism in the background I can't see this as anything but a hit job on the West.
I think 1/12th of the cylon population is about to switch sides???
I just can't see it this way.....
This show has been dark from the beginning....
To ignore the realities of the world today would be impossible, but I thinks it's FAR more of an indictment against the "Religion of Peace", than "Anti-christian"....
Many people here on FR try to project the real world onto any piece of science fiction or fantasy. If you look back in FR threads you will find that FReepers were claiming that the Lord of the Rings movies described the conflict between the West and Islamic fascists. And they also claimed the third Star Wars movie was anti-Bush because of the Sith's absolutism vs the Jedi's relativism. Good grief! Heck, if I wanted I could say that Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, and Full Metal Jacket are all anti-Bush if I abstracted to the same degree as many FReepers commonly do.
Just because you can find similarities between this episode and the War on Terror doesn't mean that they exist. It is awfully easy to abstract something like this and perform a projection. For that reason you have to give it a very large benefit of the doubt by default.
Why would they do a hit job on the Islamofasciasts? None of them watch Battlestar Galactica.
FWIW, Ronald Moore the producer has stated that the occupation was modeled after the Nazi occupation of France in WWII.
From what i have seen so far, Tigh is the only guy on that planet who is actually thinking.