Michael Moore opens his big mouth...

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99. The relatives of 500,000 dead Iraqis would disagree with you, the body count of

that war exceeded any Crusade.

Extreme Islamists are a problem but they are a 2% minority that is fighting secular society rather than say Texas where they control it.

And then there is this:

The most critical challenge to our species is global warming.

Who is having the greatest impact in undermining the science and policy to correct it, small violent insurgent groups in Asia and the Middle East or the Republican House that takes its science marching orders from people who believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old?

My secular Muslim friends would make this point:

We are risking our lives to confront and defeat our fundamentalists, what do you risk?

And finally you do realize that the people who carried out the Dark Ages didn't think of themselves as anti-intellectual and didn't call it the Dark Ages themselves, but that they were enlightened people of faith carrying out the will of a just God.