Do you think political correctness is a new cover for blasphemy?

[Faith No More]

The 'population' that I'm saying needs some protecting is the Muslim Americans.  I can see how what i wrote might be taken backwards.  I'm saying they (muslim americans) need the PC crowd to help out a bit for just the reasons you stated.  

The trick of course, is that there's 'beat the shit out of some towel-heads' and then there's criticizing the religion based on reality.  You give a PC crowd an inch, and they will try to push it to absurd lengths.  But I think that's a necessary evil at the moment.

Well then, you have my apologies. I retract my post.

And I do see your point, they do need some protection, but I'm not sure that the PC crowd going to absurd lengths is necessary. I consider myself to be reasonably PC, and I don't see why others can't distinguish between necessary protection and absurdly putting something above all criticism. We're spiraling out of control with political correctness being used to force people to cater to everyone else's insecurities, and I think if we don't stand up to the abuses of political correctness, we're going to hit a point of no return where everyone will constantly walking on eggshells and have to over-regulate the things they say to other people out of the fear that some person, in some place, will be offended.