Hitchens was right: "Religion Poisons Everything"

I can't even begin to formulate an articulate, balanced response to this. Every time I think about it, I just start seeing red. It is absolutely disgusting, and to think that American missionaries are in part responsible for such an assault on civil rights and freedom of expression is beyond appalling. I guess those rights only belong to (heterosexual) American citizens. What great patriots they are.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091208/ap_on_re_af/af_uganda_gay_death_penalty

NYU Dean shoots University in the foot

Perhaps someone should remind Dean Cooley that NYU is trying to expand its university and build a permanent campus in Abu Dhabi, UAE, a Muslim country, the next time he defends inflammatory, Islamophobic sentiments expressed by a member of the faculty. Well done, Dean. Care to shoot the other foot?

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/2033/muslim_students_shocked_by_professor%E2%80%99s_column/

It's almost enough to make me "Go Muslim."