Maybe if Mel had said, “Those fucking Islamic bastards, they’re responsible for all the fucking wars. Hey sugar tits, do you wear a burka when you screw?” he wouldn’t have been vilified quite so much and got his funding, however, he might have well be bombed or knifed or shot later as a consequnce - a factor that tends to stop a lot of leading figures from taking a clear stand and making bold statements about Islam, they have, one assumes, family after all.

No doubt it’s ridiculous. I think that countries like France and Great Britain have to be careful in how they handle suspected Islamic terrorists because they have such large Muslim populations. Any mistep could create unrest amongst the significant Muslim minorities in those countries. We just need to find good energy alternatives to oil so that we can just leave that part of the world to itself.

Uh… cause he’s a movie star? People love to talk about movie stars–especially when they screw up.

There are very few Muslim extremists who are as famous as Mr. Gibson. Osama bin Laden may be close. He’s been pretty well vilified. How many people have posted that they want Mel dead.

Even President Bush said he wanted Osama dead or alive, (before he let him escape from Tora Bora and later told a press conference that he really doesn’t spend that much time thinking about him.)

There also are thousands of non-famous Muslims who have been subjected to much harsher treatment than Mr. Gibson. They’ve been bombed, interrogated with a harshness that verges on torture, incarcerated without access to legal protection, rendered to countries where torture is countenanced. Did anyone make Mel strip and photograph him while a young soldier pointed to his genitals? It’s odd that you think that Muslims are getting such cushy treatment.

Hey Mickeleh,

You have a noble heart and extremism on any side is bad - and usually bad for the innocent bystander - but it sounds as though your IP is only giving you access to selected content.

Did you know that ahMADinejad used to be a torturer and executioner, nicknamed the ‘terminator’ - shades of the ‘Angel of Death’ in the oncentration camps? Did you know that our peaceful brothers in white robes wiped out whole Christian communities in Northern Iran and Armenia? And this isn’t just death; for some it is enslavement and torture that continues to this day. Did you know that enslavement of the black man is still rife in Somalia and the Sudan? Did you know that Osama is a rich spoilt brat who frankly doesn’t give a monkeys about anybody other than himself?

Dude, go read a few books and then complain about some fat yob — who probably abuses women, and certainly denies them equality and hates infidels in general — having his photo taken in the buff and being kept in solitary for a couple of weeks.

Fer kerists sake get a perspective. What do you think Saddam and his sons did with these people, talked meta-physics over tea and scones?

This isn’t a Monty Python sketch with a bearded man in white coming at you with a pointed stick. This is the Manchurian Candidate with attitude and religion burning the brain like a hot poker up the arse.

My advice is forget the liberal sentiment and take a reality check.