At another site on another day a contributor was shredded limb from limb for his Political Incorrectness when his thread included a phrase asserting that God might not be entirely satisfied with "Bush and the Muslims"

So the contributor issued a followup explaining that the phrase was by no means intended to affront anyone's religion but was meant only to stand as an icon or symbol for all the recent political turmoil in, of, or pertaining to the Mideast

Even our President occasionally grazes PI, referring to "'...our efforts to ...reduce the appeal of radical Islam,'" whereupon his Press Office stumbles all over itself in embarrassment: "The White House hastened to correct Bush's reference to Pakistan as an Arab nation, and said he meant to say Muslim."--AP

Partly out of the vigilant wave of caution currently enveloping the Establishment and partly owing to the hypersensitivity of certain world ideologies, in the name of Political Correctness it now seems requisite to tiptoe in the expression of political humor and so temper what we used to call "free speech" as to render it unrecognizable

Again, however, the time-honored persiflage and looseness of the American political bent should not be construed as censure of any religious belief, as so interpreted by societies unfamiliar with our traditions of intellectual freedom. However, we’re sorry they feel that way

dalehileman