John Cleese today: ‘I'll say again...Criticism of Islam is not racist, it's culturalist. For example, disapproving of Female Genital Mutilation is not racist. Criticism of Islam is Islamosceptic. There is no phobia involved in criticising a religion. That's for spiders.

Life of Brian is not Christophobic. The Pythons did not have a phobia about Christianity. We were sceptical about some of its adherents

Trying to win arguments by changing the meaning of words is a cheap debating trick.’

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