If the reason we switched to ID is for increased security, it may be time for us to move on.

As further evidence of the possibility of something wrong - I tried to respond to your description of "becoming awake", which I read in your comment stream, but I do not see it on any page.

It took me longer than a month to wake up. You sound like formidable ally. Congratulations on your perspicacity.

It's easy to get paranoid on the internet, but I am starting to agree with you.

I replied to your post of pictures of a peaceful demonstration in Britain that was beset by violent Muslim twerps. What happened to it?

I think Robert Spencer is an excellent public speaker, and he should do more of it; it is one of his strengths.

Some of the things he did with Michele Malkin were very well done.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/127124/1650818

How about a JihadWatch video channel?

Why are the comments for this post under the Pat Condell entry?

You are a good guy, John.

More Islamic casuistry.

More Islamic self parody.

<a href="http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f18/ignorance-..." target="_blank">http://forums.islamicawakening.com/f18/ignorance-...

This is from another post by Hugh to a site called "Islamic Awakening".

In an article entitled “The Ignorance of Infidels”, the author rejects at length and detail such Western ideals as:

Peace
“We are not striving for the same goal as the kuffar - our goal is obedience; the perfect, eternal, peace of Jannah. The so-called "happiness of the greatest number" is therefore irrelevant to us. The tranquillity which many of the kuffar, in their ignorance and delusion, seek is irrelevant to us.”

Rule of Law
“the kuffar are in error because they give to themselves the right, and the duty, to manufacture laws - to decide what is right, and what is wrong. This is a fundamental error, which amounts to hubris, insolence, because according to Deen Al-Islam only Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala has the right, the knowledge, the wisdom, to make laws: to determine what our laws should be. The basis for our laws, as Muslims, are the Quran and Sunnah.”

Human Rights
“For Islam, "human rights" - individual "rights" - do not exist. The quest for "human rights", the demand for "human rights" - for individual rights - negates, and covers-up, our true nature. It takes us away from our true, natural, relationship with our Creator, and this kaffir concept of "rights" is a Taghut, which they bow down to and expect others to bow down to.”

Democracy
“Democracy is thus a fraud. It is not really government by the people for the people, but rather government by an oligarchy in the interests of that oligarchy or in the interest of some vested often hidden interest group.”

Reason
“What is primary for Deen Al-Islam is submission because the perspective is of Jannah. This is in complete contrast to the West, and especially to the West now and in the past hundred or so years, whose perspective, whose focus, whose raison d'etre is this mortal life of ours, and the materialism, the comfort, the luxuries, the personal happiness, the "peace" (peace as defined by the kuffar) that can be part of this mortal life. Furthermore, and as explained above, istidlaal is a means for us to find and understand the Signs of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala.”

You forgot to mention that most of the civilians who were killed "raped, maimed and ruined" in Iraq were done so by other Muslims in sectarian violence.

You need to come out of your pose, and look around more.