While we're on the subject...

... of intolerance and bigotry, let's move right on into the realm of the insane. Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has once again made comments that are drawing international condemnation and anger. There's being a little misguided by your fundamentalist faith and then there's taking the leap into lunacy in the name of such faith. Unfortunately more and more people are voicing their frighteningly hardlined opinions on various religious and ethnic groups and lumping their insanity in with their relgion. This is, in effect, hijacking an entire faith for your own purposes. I highly doubt that whatever you may call god would approve of fundamentalism that breeds hatred.

The Holocaust happened. It is not a myth, if only that were true... Slavery was real, the Holocaust was real, Rwandan genocide is real, oppression and hatred are real. To dismiss any of them as "myths" is reprehensible.