Why Simply making Nice Won't Work

Not to mention groveling, which is the approach His Hope-n-Changeness seems to be taking to the Muslim world.

Note this article by Michael Ledeen on the Iraqi woman known as "The Mother of the Believers", who has confessed to recruiting more than 80 women as suicide homicide bombers

(by) organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.

Later, at the end of the article, is a link to another article that says the same tactic has been used to "recruit" gays as homicide bombers.

Look, I don't care if you want to worship Ahura-Mazda, or Mithras, or that funny looking rock in the back yard, I have two rules, so far as religion goes: You don't try to force me to convert to your religion, and you don't kill others in the name of your religion. As far as the first rule goes, it would be nice if you stop tyring to convincce me to convert when I ask you to; for the second, well, there are so many ways you could make a bad situation worse!

I keep thinking "Now I've heard everything", but then some dirtbag comes along...