Only Andy may criticize religions

Andrew Sullivan, a man who loves to throw around the anti-Semitism label at everyone including Jews, decides to write a hateful blurb today about Islam:

THE CULTURE OF DEATH: A couple of hundred people are dead because they were a little too enthusiastic about stoning the Devil. This happens every year. Is it culturally insensitive to ask whether there isn't something profoundly awry about a religion that sends so many to their deaths as part of a religious duty? The Hajj minister in Saudi Arabia comments: "All precautions were taken to prevent such an incident, but this is God's will. Caution isn't stronger than fate." Excuse me? God's will to commit hundreds to their deaths? At the same time, Islamist fanatics murder scores by killing themselves in Iraq. What we have on our hands is, in some instances, not that far from a death cult.

Yes, Andy, that was very culturally insensitive. You're generalizing about an entire religion based on its most extreme individuals. Every religion, even your own beloved Catholicism, has fundamentalist wackos.

It's disappointing that there isn't more outrage over these comments -- imagine if Andy had made similar comments about Judaism! I'll continue to keep Andrew Sullivan on my links list, because his insanity more than cancels out all the so-called "liberal" blogs I link to.