A very interesting post at New Appeal to Reason highlights the testimony of an Islamist anti-evolutionist's (how's that for ponderous?) testimony at the Kansas State School Board's meeting on Intelligent Design.

Mustafa Akyol might seem a bit out of place at first, but his is a sort of "enemy of my enemy is my friend" appearance, making common-cause with the ID'rs.

One thing this reminded me of, is that Europe and those sectors of the Left who retreat from and bash all religion thinking that it will protect them from the radicals ("Don't bother me! I don't believe in any of it!") are dead wrong. If there's one thing the Islamists hate even more than Christians and Jews, it's the Godless.

Akyol gets something about right in this quote at The Panda's Thumb from the Kansas City Star:

While the blogger poo-poo's this, I actually think it's just about right on, though easily over-stated. The "bad guys" would hate us no matter what we believed in the particulars - they'd want us to believe exactly as they in all things. Theirs is a totalitarian ideology. But one of the things they particularly hate us for is the degree to which the cool, God-unreliant (that is, it does not necessarily rely on God, but it need not - to us - necessarily be against God) rationality of the West is creeping, creeping into their benighted havens. The inevitable, virtually unstopable cultural-imperialism of rational thought and a comprehensible world is, to them, a virus we carry with us.