Look, no one appreciates anyone who tries to use smart-aleck quips to invalidate anyone's understandable feelings about those who follow Islam. And that is what happened here. sabramerican reacted to a comment that was specifically posted to invalidate his by implying that it must be erroneous just because someone had "cool" Muslim friends so they know better. The response was immature and certainly not indicative of being any sort of expert on Islam. If someone disagrees, that's fine. But when the thread devolves with the instigation of personal attacks, any discussion becomes worthless.
You are kidding right? You are defending someone whose first post on this thread was a picture of Bush and a Sheik with a caption about "Getting to second base", and you are slamming someone else for being "immature". I think it is pretty clear based on his first post that Sabramerican wasn't looking for intellectual discourse on Islam.
And now I just read his second post which was a response to Allegra's first post on this thread. It is VERY CLEAR who was out of line here.