Michael Perry is "not interested in Karen Armstong."  This comes as a surprise, given his post of a few hours ago, which leads with the following:  Who, you ask, is Karen Armstrong.  The most popular--and the most accessible--of contemporary historians of religion.  And a former nun.  This is her most recent book.

Perhaps it's time to take another of the recommended "deap breath[s]," this time in anticipation of the following:

" The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 5 Months

Date	Country	City	Killed	Injured	Description
9/18/06	Iraq	Tal Afar	17	27	Muslim radicals bomb a marketplace, massacring seventeen innocent shoppers.
9/18/06	Iraq	Baquba	4	5	Sunnis gun down four members of a Shia family.
9/18/06	Iraq	Baghdad	27	13	Twenty-seven people are murdered by Jihadis in various attacks around the country.
9/18/06	Iraq	Mosul	4	0	Islamic radicals kidnap and torture four women to death.
9/18/06	Somalia	Mogadishu	5	4	At least five people are killed in a car bomb attack on the Somali president.
9/18/06	Iraq	Ramadi	13	10	A suicide bomber blows himself to Allah, taking more than a dozen unwilling souls with him.
9/17/06	Afghanistan	Kandahar	1	11	A suicide bomber kills an innocent civilian in a blast along a city street.
9/17/06	Somalia	Mogadishu	2	0	A 70-year-old nun working at a childrens' hospital is shot to death by radical Muslims, along with a guard.
9/17/06	Iraq	Kirkuk	21	63	Two suicide bomb attacks by 'Holy Warriors' take the lives of at least twenty-one innocents.
9/17/06	Iraq	Baghdad	24	0	Twenty-four more tortured and executed victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found.
9/17/06	Iraq	Baqubah	2	3	Jihadis attack an electrical plant, killing two guards.
9/17/06	Afghanistan	Helmand	2	0	Two policemen are murdered by Taliban extremists in a roadside attack.
9/16/06	Iraq	Baghdad	47	0	Forty-seven more tortured and executed victims of sectarian hatred within the Religion of Peace are found.
9/16/06	Thailand	Hat Yai	5	79	At least five patrons of a shopping district are killed when Muslim militants set off six separate bombs.
9/16/06	Iraq	Samarra	4	0	An al-Qaeda ambush leaves four tribesman dead.
9/16/06	Iraq	Baghdad	3	22	Two bombs, including one strapped to a corpse, kill three people.
9/16/06	Iraq	Ramadi	4	8	Jihadis send four civilians to Allah with a roadside incendiary bomb.
9/16/06	Afghanistan	Kabul	3	1	Three humanitarian workers are blown apart by the Taliban.
9/15/06	Iraq	Baghdad	22	0	The bodies of two-dozen more victims of sectarian hatred are found across the city.
9/15/06	Yemen	Haradmut	1	0	One of two suicide attacks on oil facilities in Yemen nets the death of a guard.
9/15/06	Iraq	Mussayab	1	0	Islamic radicals kidnap a man, cut off his legs and head, then dump his body in the river.
9/15/06	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	A man is killed in his home by militant Muslims.
9/15/06	India	Surankote	1	5	A young boy is killed when Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists lob a grenade into his family's home.
9/15/06	India	Watergam	1	7	al-Mansoorian terrorists attack an Indian security patrol, killing one member.
9/15/06	Thailand	Narathiwat	2	1	Two civilians are brutally shot to death by Islamic militants while traveling on a road.
9/14/06	Iraq	Baghdad	2	25	A religious extremist targets a U.S. patrol in a suicide attack, killing two soldiers.
9/14/06	Iraq	Baghdad	32	0	The tortured bodies of thirty-two victims of sectarian hatred are found.
9/14/06	India	Hathiwara	1	0	A photographer is kidnapped and beheaded by the Religion of Peace.
9/14/06	Afghanistan	Bakwa	2	2	Religious extremists attack a police station, killing two officers.
9/14/06	Iraq	Baghdad	10	39	Islamic terrorists set off two bombs, one at a photography shop and the other in a city street, killing ten innocents.
9/13/06	Iraq	Baghdad	14	57	Jihadis kill fourteen people on a city street with a car bomb packed with shrapnel.
9/13/06	Iraq	Baghdad	69	0	Sixty-nine victims of sectarian violence are found bound, tortured and murdered over a 24-hour period.
9/13/06	Afghanistan	Farah	1	0	A UN humanitarian worker is murdered by Muslim militants on a road.
9/12/06	Iraq	Baghdad	6	15	Six civilians are shredded by a Jihadi car bomb in a commercial district.
9/12/06	Syria	Damascus	1	14	Terrorists shouting 'Allah Akbar' detonate a car bomb and attempt to storm the U.S. embassy. A Syrian guard is killed.
9/12/06	Turkey	Amed

And it goes on and on . . . over at http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/