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The news that a recent scientific paper on the common genetic roots of Jews and Palestinians had been suppressed by learned journals, because of the political sensitivity of its conclusions, made for depressing reading.

I thought it was well-known that Jews and Arabs are branches of a common tree. Certainly the Old Testament indicates it clearly as does, in my understanding, the Koran. Even within the secular field, there is a reason why we refer to Semitic peoples which includes Jews and Palestinians as well as other Arab peoples.

Politicalusa.com, one of a number of websites committed, since 11 September, to rooting out the liberal "traitors" who have dared speak out against US government policy, includes a series of pseudo-scholarly attacks on Islam. In one article entitled "The myth of Mecca", Jack Wheeler (an adviser to the Afghan mujahedin in the Reagan era) manipulates the new history to argue that Muslims must be forced to accept that their religion is based on a series of made-up ideas.

Well, it took a while but we finally get to the truly bad news. Christians who are "right-wing" (some even worked for that sadist Reagan) actually have opinions on this subject.

I watched the liberal-slanted Islam: Empire of Faith on PBS last night (just a self-abuse thing, I guess) and noted how Christians were denigrated at every opportunity and Islam was glorified at every opportunity. PBS is planning to celebrate the penetration of Islam in America with some crappy program about Islam In Appalachia which will supposedly show how Islam is rising in America even within the Bible Belt. Ugh. Funded by some Methodist committee if I understood the credits correctly. What a surprise for me to learn that modern Methodists would rather propagandize for Islam instead of funding missionaries to oppose the false god Allah.