I’ve trashed a bunch of either off-topic or incoherent comments this week, but perhaps you’d like to see a couple that didn’t make it past moderation. (I’m not including the insane personal emails I’ve gotten, either.) These Attempted Posts are pro-Islamic, which is no surprise given my recent criticisms of the faith. They weren’t trashed for that viewpoint though, but for incivility or borderline lunacy. No words have been changed from the original:

“From reader BlogPhantom (from the UK), trying to post on “Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Literalism ‘n’ “moderate” Muslims“:

Personnaly I think you guys are wrong. Islam is a true religion, it’s as clear as crystal water and it looks like some of you’s are just a load of brainwashed people. Honestly I would think you people knew your stuff, but now I think abou it you guys are on the wrong path. You may think JUST because I’m twelve I’m a moran, well that’s not exactly true because i KNOW MY stuff Alhamdullilah. Islam is a religion of peace, I see it all the time singled out on the media, you know why? Because it’s the TRUTH! And people don’t want you to know what the TRUTH is!!!

A moran? Any relative of Larry’s? Probably not, but certainly a Muslim.

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From reader titani2, attempting to comment on “Maher, Harris, Kristof, Steele, and Affleck squabble about Islam“:

Dear Maher, Harris, Kristof, Steele, and Affleck: Do do not squabble about Islam. Just read Quran. Quran is here: http://www.clearquran.com

Well, of the four in question, I’m sure that both Maher and Harris have already read that book; I don’t know about Affleck and Kristof.

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Now here is what you call a real rant. It’s from reader Malu, desperate to tell us how to regard Reza Aslan on the post “The handy-dandy Aslan/Affleck refuter”:

 I am disappointed!! I normally LOVE YOU, and admire the “boys atheist club” very much!! But you guys are disappointing me!! You should not join your friends when your friends are incorrect and inappropriate!!! How’s saying “Islam is the motherland of all problems” going to help us??- It was appalling the way Reza was interviewed by those 2 sensationalist super-biased CNN commentators “a la FOX news” style bringing a calf (I won’t dare say lamb) to be slaughtered, the way that news now is reality TV, they were ostentatiously racist and biased, not professional nor ethical!! and that’s the way that radical militant Zionist Marher operates – also admire his brilliancy, but his shows are despotic, not satires, noone who disagrees with him manages to talk, not to mention that he puts one conservative lamb (this time I’ll write it) in the middle of liberal guests with a liberal audience!!!! How can you NOT speak up about that??? Reza is not a particular evil person because he writes in defense of religion or Islam. I profoundly disagree with him, but he’s intelligent, well educated, and the kind of person we should treat with respect since he may be a LINK to connect to moderate Muslims!!!! People bash moderate Muslims and leaders if they don’t speak to condemn acts of violence, than they speak and try to at least convince their own people that Islam can teach good things and that it’d condemn violent acts, then YOU people bash them!! (atheists can’t move so aggressively!! All we need to do is to put the seed of doubt, of questioning in a debate or exchange, that’s all. Use science when possible. We don’t have to be so militant, it’ll back fire!!!) 1. you mention as defense “notoriously anti-woman Sharia courts”, but that is just as vague and incorrect as Reza’s statement. There’s a particular province that has seen a rise in Sharia law enforcement, but not all provinces of Indonesia. Indonesian women are not in an equal level with their male counterparts but not so far behind American women with issues of wage, work force… but by law, they can vote, drive, go to school, and protest for higher wages like us. 2. “… and often has much more to do with the political power of certain families in under-developed parts of the world.” THAT IS SO CONDESCENDING!! Turkey, which you don’t mention at all, and Reza did several times, has had many elected female leaders by democratic vote, so did India (Muslim minority), Pakistan, and many Muslim countries, and even Iraq under Hussein was an incredibly secularized society, and Iran way back when; the US can’t get a woman elected not even with “political power from certain families”!!! and look at the racism and white supremacy violent escalation because we voted on a “black” guy!! Haha! so before you look down at other countries, LOOK AT YOUR OWN SHIT! 3. And perhaps, since you won’t take Reza’s statements, perhaps you will take UNICEF’s statistics, that show that besides Yemen, which has like Oman, large blood connections with some Eastern African countries, ALL OTHER countries to apply FGM are African which predates Islam was ever conceived! and these ARE countries of varied religious demographics!!!!! So do me a favor, don’t become a politician, don’t throw me rhetoric, the only strength of an atheist movement is its back bone, its high ethical values! Or you’ll loose people and it’ll back fire even more! Part of skepticism, is honesty including details!!!!!!!!! and why to fight moderate religious leaders, why not to work with them, try to persuade them with respect not disdain????

Where to begin? I suspect nowhere; a comment like this is for display and not analysis.  All it’s missing are some “frowny face” emoticons.

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