No religion which promotes hate and terror could ever be considered "valid." Why CJ is attempting to validate a religion of hate and terror defies reason unless he is a muslim him/herself?
Considering that a fourth of the world's population adheres to the religion which is being honored (not promoted) on the State Department's website, and considering the fact that we, a predominantly-Christian country, were recently at war with a couple of predominantly-Muslim country, and considering that Osama bin Laden tried to turn our war against his terror into a war of Christendom upon Islam, and conversely, a war of Muslims against Christians, and considering that there are many American leftist-paleos who would gladly assist bin Laden in turning the war against terrorism into a war against a religion or a class or a civilization, hence the opposition to the informative webpage seems rash, or petty, or ill-informed, or misguided at best.