Are you saying that I can make a statement like, "ALL members of [name of religious group] are [pick a defamatory term]," direct that post to a known member of that group and the post WOULD NOT be making it personal?
If FReeper ABC was a member of the Church of XYZ, I could make a post to ABC saying, "ALL XYZers drink pig blood and worship Satan" and that FReeper XYZ would be dismissed as a thin-skinned disruptor for taking it personally?
Yes, though I might pull the pig blood reference for tackiness or as a slur if used in the context of Islamic Fundamentalism.