Few events of the last year have irked me as much as the current paranoia sweeping the Muslim world over a series of political cartoons. I have great respect for historical figures like Christ and Muhammad. But I have little respect for the religious institutions built around their teachings. If you can understand this dichotomy - congratulations - you've escaped the shackles that religion places on the rational human mind. Christ and the Catholic Church are two distince entities. One, a great man and spirtual being. The other, an obsolete political organization that needs to reform or die out. The same applies to Muhammad and the uneducated Imams that represent most of the Arab-Muslim world. Religion is nothing more than spirituality, mixed in with a little bit of political, man-made dogma. Take away the dogma - the silly ideas about sacred cows, head coverings, birth-control, and intolerance towards people with different faiths, and all the world's religions share a common spiritual core - that humankind is part of a greater universal force. Call this Allah, Yahweh, Brahma, the Jungian Morphogenetic Field, Higher Intelligence or Cosmic Intelligence. It does not matter. It's the same thing. The idiots now burning Danish flags don't get this. Muhammad, the man who was so modest that he declared his burial place should remain secret lest people worship him over God, would not want Muslims burning Danish flags to protect his image. In doing so, they have only drifted away from God. If I could close my eyes and wish for Religion to dissapear from the earth and be replaced with a common spirituality I would do so in an instant. Religion is obsolete. And nothing takes us further from God, Spirituality and Peace then that mental parasite called Organized Religion. I was raised as a Hindu, live in a Muslim country and married a Christian. And in the process I realized how dangerous and useless religion is. I stopped calling myself a Hindu in 2002 and instead decided to explore spirituality through meditation and study - and not by reading obsolete thousand year old texts. I'm waiting for the rest of the World to stop calling themselves Muslims, Christians, Hindus and those other silly labels.