"How has "elitism" become a bad word in American politics? There is simply no other walk of life in which extraordinary talent and rigorous training are denigrated. We want elite pilots to fly our planes, elite troops to undertake our most critical missions, elite athletes to represent us in competition and elite scientists to devote the most productive years of their lives to curing our diseases. And yet, when it comes time to vest people with even greater responsibilities, we consider it a virtue to shun any and all standards of excellence. When it comes to choosing the people whose thoughts and actions will decide the fates of millions, then we suddenly want someone just like us, someone fit to have a beer with, someone down-to-earth—in fact, almost anyone, provided that he or she doesn't seem too intelligent or well educated."

-Sam Harris http://www.newsweek.com/id/160 080/page/3

I've never been religious, but, post July 7th, I've realized that Islamists, even in my own country, are vicious, merciless, heartless monsters and must be stopped. Let me clear up any ambiguity for leftist thought police: an Islamist is a person that wishes to set up a global Islamic caliphate. A Muslim is NOT an Islamist by default.

Live and let live atheism (or any non-Islamic belief system) is clearly incompatible with Islamist theology so I've become a "militant" atheist; that is, an atheist who knows he's an atheist and is willing to stand up for his right to be one in the face of pressure and bigotry from holier than thou arseholes who wish to destroy me.

The United Kingdom must work with our valued allies abroad, such as the United States and anyone in any country who face the same threats and share our civilized values (secularists in Islamic theocracies for instance) to wipe out the scourge of Islam and free the people imprisoned by these theocratic monsters even if that means killing them one by one. It's just common courtesy: the theocrats have come to us looking for trouble, its basic manners to give it back -- a thousand times stronger.

==Things that piss me off==

Where to start? I don't like the self-pitying, paranoid delusions of victimhood that follow religious people like the huge chips on their shoulders. Muslims and Christians especially seek reasons to feel they're being victimized or discriminated against in some way. Christians feel that they're being discriminated against because they can't pray enough in school, but when an atheist is kicked out of school for refusing to join in with the (supposedly banned) prayer circle a news reporter speaks to her like she's something he's scraped off his shoe. Imagine if it was a an atheist kicking a Christian out for religious reasons... go on, imagine it. And Muslims, well just look at them and they're pissed off.

I'm sick of the term "radical Islam" too. These people are simply being sincere to their faith (like Christians in the Dark Ages) why can't we just say this? I'm fed up with the European and North American left, secular and religious, who'll never hear a bad word said against the Bin Ladenists but are always quick to scapegoat the West, the United States, Israel and even atheists; a worrying new trend. The Western left; that I once supported, is a headless heart with a mind so open that its brain has fallen out.