and we are left with the impression of a kind of desperation on the part of the interviewers to deflect blame from Islam and to create the kind of "moral equivalence" that the Left promoted, in relation to the United States and the Soviet Union, during the Cold War. Most people see through this easily, although, as George Orwell said, nothing is so preposterous that an intellectual will not believe it. People like O'Donnell, Bloomberg, and Buruma know that they have the "useful idiot" intellectuals on their side.Currently, the ugliest counter-examples to the good intentions of Muslims are the continuing attacks on Christians in Iraq, Pakistan, and especially in Egypt. Churches are looted, burned, demolished, and/or bombed. Christians in Iraq and Egypt are kidnapped and ransomed or tortured and murdered. Women and girls are kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, and "married" to Muslims against their will. Campaigns are conducted in Egypt that Christians families are holding their own girls "hostage" after they supposedly converted to Islam. The government of Egypt does not even allow churches to be built or repaired without its permission, which is effecively never given. Or, if it is, mobs often attack the churches, or even the whole Christian villages around them, during or after construction. On 24 November 2010, Egypt security forces actually stormed the St. Mary and St. Michael churches, which were under construction in Giza, occupying them and firing live ammunition at Coptic demontrators, killing at least four. The official complaint was that a permit for the construction had not been obtained, although actually it had. Either way, a paramilitary attack, shooting civilians, is not the reasonable response to people building churches.The Western Press pays little attention to these atrocities, both because the Western secular elite, in the intelligentsia, academia, and the media, is hostile to Christianity, and generally kills stories about the persecution of Christians, and because the political Left is effectively an ally of Islamic Fascism. Since Egyptian state security forces fail to protect Christians and often appear to cooperate in their persecution, including this recent case of shooting Christian demonstrators, while the government-controlled Press promotes anti-Christian hysteria, this puts the lie to claims about the general tolerance, respect, and good-will that Islam is supposed to show towards other religions. That is not the practice on the ground in most Islamic countries, whether the Western Press reports it or not.The word "Allah" in Arabic, with Cognates in Hebrew & BabylonianIslamic Fascism and Satyagraha in PalestinePhilosophy of HistoryPolitical EconomyIndexIntroduction"Islamophobia"The word "Allah" in Arabic, with Cognates in Hebrew & BabylonianThe Prophet, 622-632 ADThe Rightly Guided Caliphs, 632-661 ADThe Shi'ite Imams, 632-878 ADThe Omayyad Caliphs, 661-750 ADThe Abbasid Caliphs, 750-1258 ADThe Aghlabids, 800-909 ADThe T.ahirids, 821-873 ADThe T.ulunids, 868-905 ADThe Samanids, 819-1005 ADThe S.affarid, 861-1003 ADThe Ikhshidids, 935-969 ADThe H.amdanids of Aleppo, 944-1004 ADThe Buwayid Amirs of Iraq, 945-1055The Qarakhanids, c.992-1212 ADThe Ghaznawids, 977-1186 ADThe Ghurids, 1011-1215 ADIslamic Rulers of Spain, 756-1492 ADThe Omayyad Amirs, 756-912The Omayyad Caliphs, 912-1031The Muluk at-T.awa'if, 1010-1114The Jahwarids of CordovaMurciaThe 'Abbadids of SevilleThe H.ammudids of MalagaThe Zirids of GranadaAft.asids of BadajozThe 'Amirids