I am here to defnd my statment - as advertised, I will defend anything I have said, even if it is under (inadvertantly) a different name.
@869737: Yes, in fact I can find any Middle Eastern nation you name on a map. And have been able to do so since I was twelve, as I pride myself on my education. Further I can state that the following Middle Eastern nations have Islam as an official state religion, with limited or no tolerance granted other religions: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bahrain (de facto, more tolerance is given to Christianity, as it is the religion of the overwhelming majority of the foreign workers there), Qatar (ditto), Kuwait (ditto, but to a lesser extent), Oman, the UAE, Yemen and Jordan. In Syria, there is no official State religion, but the Constitution requires the President to be a Muslim. In Egypt, Islam is the state religion, and the President appoints the head of the Coptic Christian church in Egypt. In exchange for this, Christians are accorded citizenship in Egypt, although they are widely discriminated against.
Further, it is widely (and correctly) stated that homophobia is the last respectable expression of bigotry, not Islamophobia. Get it right.
@aaa - Wrong. One chooses to be a Muslim in the Western world. Either because one converted to Islam (which, unlike Judaism, proselytises), or because one moved there. If a person's parents moved there, fair enough - but they can always leave Islam and its 7th-century mandates behind in order to honour the ways of life of their homelands.
@Exmuslim Turk: Excuse me? Since when do I advocate such treatment of women as you suggest I do? Further, argumentum ad hitlerum is one of the more egregious logical fallacies out there.
@870161: S'funny, isn't it? There's enough of them to riot at the drop of a hat, to have enormous mosques built to accommodate their worship needs, to form criminal gangs and to pressure gutless politicians into doing their bidding. But there's not enough to take over? Yeah, right. Pull the other one mate, or open your eyes.
@DarthVader: Thank you. Islam is not a race. If this post should have been put anywhere, it's in FSTDT - as a hardline anti-(insert name of religion here)ist, FSTDT is the closest match.
EDIT: @Mortok: Just mention the name of Taj al-Din al-Hilali (you know, the former Grand Mufti of Australia) to any reasonably intelligent Australian. Then stand back and watch the reaction. After all, his remarks included (but were not limited to) denying the Holocause ever happened, his accusations that Jews cause all wars (made in 1988, well before he became G.M.), his support of terrorist in sermons and by funneling "charitable" funds, his statement that 90% of the time, a woman is responsible for causing her own rape by not being "in her room, in her home, in her hijab", and, last but far from least, his statements that Muslims have more right to own Australia than the Australian people do.
And you want to defend the bunch of nutters that made THIS man their religious leader, and kept him there for 15 years, well after his beliefs and positions were well known, why? Oh, that's right. Because in your eyes, it's always a "tiny minority" of Muslims. Except, bright-eyes, that it's not. It's the majority of them, propelled by the words of their own holy book, which states that no peace will exist so long as religions other than Islam exist.