Cuba allows only home practice of Islam, won't permit mosques, has a Communist dictator in charge, and yet NO State Islam nation objects to Cuba or wants to burn "Das Kapital" (http://www.islamawareness.net/LatinAmerica/cuba.html ).

China has a Communist government, allows all sorts of Islamic identity, but gosh darn it, just doesn't like to see Muslims involved in much government; whereas as China happily allows Muslim burning of things Judeo-Christian and smacks down as "superstition" any religion other than Islam, which former Chairman Mao did before Jintao got lovey-dovey with extremists, still, nobody wants to burn Chinese flags or what not in China (http://www.islamawareness.net/Asia/China/islchina.html).

Socialist dictator (and maker of many "trustworthy" USA no-trail voting results computers) Hugo Chavez is super-huge on Islam, encourages only Islam in Venezuela, and easily permits burning of ANYTHING not Islamic, yet Muslims have no place in Venezuela government and nobody says he's a racist or xenophobe or "superstition monger" or burns his flags (http://www.islamawareness.net/LatinAmerica/carib_and_southamerica.html).

It's almost as if the long-contested policy of Muslim strongmen...that Islam and ALL religions are mere made-up psychology, but at least Islam even to Arabs is tolerable if an orthodoxy that only strongmen and their appointed Imams then have "divine wisdom" and execute God's will as fancy strikes...is being used as an excuse to smack down ANYBODY who dares question ANY strongman, with regimes then hiding behind "religious speech" to boot...while themselves laughing they don't even believe in or support Islam as a real religion or spirituality, thus admitting they themselves then are just writing edicts ex nihilio.

Just trying to point out that there could be more to the rodomontades of USA media and officials about why they themselves urge appeasing Muslim strongmen and their admirers, as if somebody else alone then someplace else will go defend democracy and freedom...and in the meantime, we'll just act ala Castro re Mosques, praise of Islam, and the distancing of even peaceful Muslims together with those who will feel media/government pressure to "convert" from political concern; see, there is ALWAYS some national economic security reason to "only look" like you too wear a crown, or armband, or Red Star, "only act" like it to "fool" foreigners, and suspect everyone in your Gulag...er, nation...of being in cahoots with each other about wanting sovereigns operating as economic determinists and capable of meeting out all life and death with or without merit to whomever they wish as fancy strikes...even if they laugh at your new "one true religion" as being in their minds as fake as all others but at least a useful idiocy to an appearance of dictatorial legitimacy.

I don't fret too many will this, as weeks ago Townhall got rid of its homepage link to smaller bloggers, meaning from now on you see who they want saying what they want without countervail...speaking of adopting protocol from New Orders.