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VE, my thanks for your news about Gribble; sorry, though, to learn that she obviously gave up believing that the Listener is just a Times newspaper crossword competition like any similar one in The Sun, Star or wherever. A bit more difficult, of course, but not deserving of special sanctification!
You say, "I most certainly 'hate' Islam."
That simply reveals a lack of grasp of what Islam means to vast multitudes of peace-loving, ordinary people worldwide. For them, it is a belief-system that has nothing whatsoever to do with a concept of ‘supremacy’ or approval of terrorist means of supporting it.
I doubt whether the average Christian in mediaeval Spain even knew of the existence of the Inquisition and the average Muslim today is probably equally innocent of supporting the lunatic fringe of Islam which embraces terrorism.
I’m an atheist and consider all religions to be pie-in-the-sky nonsense, but I fully accept that the vast bulk of their followers are genuine in their beliefs. I don’t “hate” any of them!