The Umpire is always right and a good player never dissents with a decision - at least that's the way I look at forum moderation - and if the mods say 'out' that's fine with me.

Like John I want F8 to be focussed - in the case of this thread I was trying to make the point that the religious fundamentalism that underpinned witch burning was not something of long ago and far away but that the 'religious violence' of (at least some) premies has a more recent antecedance than the middleages. In retrospect it was probably a 'point too far'.

Taking an OT subject to another forum seems eminently sensible - I'll take witches, Nazis and murderous Judeo-Christo-Islamism to a suitable spot on Hamzen's forum, later.

Nik