FOR ALL THE ISLAMOPHOBIC VITRIOL AND HATRED SPEWED FORTH ON ESPECIALLY CONSERVATIVE-LEANING MEDIA OUTLETS, much of it tending to discreet (yet obvious) racism and bigotry of the highest order, the Islamophobes may want to start seeing the errors of their ways when they consider where a major revision of the Holy Qur'an (the Muslim sacred text) is now being developed in Turkey as would bring its language and message to modern forms.

Which, come to think of it, would be up there with the 1952 publication of the Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible in terms of bringing the Judeo-Christian sacred text into modern contexts, notwithstanding the occasional anti-Catholic conspiracist propaganda claiming that the RSV and subsequent revisions of the Bible (including the more recent New International Version) were secretly funded by the Vatican to "confuse and mislead the Christian faithful away from the pure Word of G-d" in the King James Version, archaic language and all.

(BTW, the King James was not the first translation of Holy Writ into English: Some 20 years before the KJV first came out, William Wycliff came out with the first such; he would eventually be charged with hearsay.)

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AS IF THE IDEA OF ISLAM EXPECTED TO SANCTION SEXUAL SEGREGATION WAS GROUNDS ENOUGH to further excuse such "patriotic" Islamophobia, it's interesting to note where women have started becoming imans in several countries, including here in the "morally superior" United States.

Not to mention a Sufi mosque near New York City allowing men and women together during Friday prayers, and with a female iman leading the prayers.

And a Muslim midrasa in NYC having boys and girls together in the same classes, the headmaster thereof citing one the Prophet Muhammad's injunction that women should be on the same intellectual level as men--even if women are expected to remain modest.

That, and a female iman coming out with a "correction" of a much-debated passage in the Qur'an which traditionally contended that husbands had the obligation to beat wives as didn't fall into line; in her view, such is the result of misinterpretation of an Arabic term which has long been translated as "beat," but could also be translated as "leave."

Take that, "patriotic" Islamophobes!