I find it hard to believe that anyone would be upset after the Pentagon decided to rescind its invitation to evangelist Franklin Graham to speak at an official prayer service. Apparently, and according to yesterday's NYT's article, the Pentagon didn't even invite Graham for this service. A Colorado-based National Day of Prayer Task Force, which is helping the Pentagon chaplain's office with the prayer event, did. Two quick things to say about this: Graham preached at a 2003 Pentagon Good Friday service and this was after he had made disparaging remarks against Islam.  Second, how can any religious figure who dismisses another religion as "evil" and "wicked"and attacks its prophet as a charlatan hope to preach for the military at the Pentagon while thousands of soldiers are in a war zone in two Muslim countries? Graham keeps saying that he has nothing against Muslims-- just that their religion is "evil" and that their God is not the Judeo-Christian God-- What a great disclaimer! Ultimately, Graham and his followers, have no respect for the constitution of this country and all they labor for is to make this country a Christian nation. The biggest worry, however, is that this kind of inflamed rhetoric on both sides including Muslim radicals who get lots of media attention, only foments tensions. A couple of days ago, Jon Stewart, whom I respect a lot, had a long segment against the radical Muslim group in New York who recently sent a death threat to the writers of South Park for portraying Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit. I can take criticism and I think Muslims should get used to it and respond to it with responsible words, but the problem is that those who want to do that are not listened to. Anderson Cooper did a segment on the South Park death threat and he had only one source, Ayaan Hirsi Ali. You can imagine what she said. This is what makes satire a bit too much to take. It's not that Muslims can't take criticism, but it's just that it's the only thing they see and hear in public discourse.