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Used my final days annual leave for the year to take a long weekend up in the North Yorks Moors. First stop, Farndale. Farndale by Gareth Hughes, on Flickr

Thanks Tony, I needed that. It got worse. One of the supporters just replied with the reliably dumb "what about female genital mutilation?" line. There's an acronym PRATT - Point Refuted A Thousand Times - often used by atheists. FGM is dreadful but it's a cultural practice, not a religious one, as evidenced by: - not mentioned in Quran - predates Islam by at least 700 and possibly 2000 years in Egypt. - in Iraq, despite them all being Muslims, it is only practised by Kurds - in Niger, 80% Muslim country, FGM is also practised by Christians - in Tanzania the rate of FGM is higher among Christians than among Muslims - in Ethiopia, FGM is also traditionally practised by Jews. like shooting stationary fish in a barrel. The greatest absurdity is that, as a very intolerant atheist, I hate all religions but I can still do a better job of defending Islam than these morons can attacking it. I'm not even trying to defend Islam. I'm just trying to get these morons to think critically based on facts. Or, to use facts to criticise Islam. That would be a start.