Okay, I'm back after a hiatus for three weeks. I have been following news in MSM and in my favorite blogs, so I am not really out of the loop so to speak. Let me see - apart from the continuing debates on immigration reforms in the U.S., the only other issue that continues to interest me is Islamofascism. We all know that any democracy is a potential haven for terrorists, and that in virtually every democratic country you will find mosques where radical imams preach hatred towards non-believers. Today's edition of The Times reports that U.K. Muslim students who wish to be imams are "being taught to despise unbelievers as filth." But the students are protesting this insipid doctrine:

MUSLIM students training to be imams at a British college with strong Iranian links have complained that they are being taught fundamentalist doctrines which describe nonMuslims as “filth”.

The Times has obtained extracts from medieval texts taught to the students in which unbelievers are likened to pigs and dogs. The texts are taught at the Hawza Ilmiyya of London, a religious school, which has a sister institution, the Islamic College for Advanced Studies (ICAS), which offers a degree validated by Middlesex University.

The students, who have asked to remain anonymous, study their religious courses alongside the university-backed BA in Islamic studies. They spend two days a week as religious students and three days on their university course.

Read the entire article here.

     Bravo for the students for realizing that Islam is not entirely a peaceful religion. One thing that is equally bothersome is that these students are also being taught to despise animals such as dogs and pigs because they are "unclean" along with "urine, faeces, semen, carrion, blood of carrion, dogs, pigs, disbelievers." Any reasonable modern thinker and proponents of alternative medicine will tell you that urine has medical benefits, that having a pet can extend your life, and that women who swallow their lovers' semen may prevent ovarian cancer and depression. What is gross to many may be tasty to some!

     So I guess based on the observations above, it is safe to assume that we - the "filthy disbelievers" - are far more open to scientific and medical explorations than your average Islamo and Islamette.