There has been some confusion over who I am or what my intentions are on this website. I have been a proud left-winger since I was 16 years old, when I was first introduced to the works of Noam Chomsky. I believe in multiculturalism and racial/ethnic/religious/non-religious equality. I am not an Islamophobe, as some people have misunderstood me to be. Not wanting to reveal my religious faith (or lack thereof), I actually have a lot of admiration and respect for the faith of Islam and its founder; and have studied it for many years.
And by study, I don't mean that I have read Robert Spencer or Daniel Pipes's books; but books written by real scholars of the religion; scholars such as Khaled Abou El Fadl, Tariq Ramadan, Amina Wadud, etc: people who obviously have a sympathetic bias toward Islam, but who nonetheless try to be fair and accurate in their research.
