On the whole, however, the West continued to attack Islam and its prophet in the harshest possible terms.

Sistani underlined how un-Islamic acts of extremism are used as justification to attack Islam.

Yefet attacked Islam with the greatest violence.

"The sole purpose of this blog is to attack those Bloggers who attack Islam and manipulate information in their advantage."

For instance, he has pressured the American leadership several times to speak out publicly against religious leaders who have repeatedly attacked Islam and Muhammad.

Like many here, he reduces the confrontation to a political move by the United States to justify attacking Islam.

It was a religious-military society originally set up to attack Islam in its own territories.

"He was attacking Islam through these people."

And yet we hear all the time that if you attack Saudi Arabia's human rights record, you are attacking Islam.

"It has become politically correct to attack Islam, and this is making it hard for moderates on both sides to remain reasonable."