The excitable, illiterate inmates of Democratic Underground are working themselves up into a lather again; time to increase the lithium dosage: a war with the religious right is coming, cause that’s what they want.

a nation of true believers is what they want, and they don’t want you non believers around at all. of course, we can’t allow that, but that won’t stop the coming major confrontation with the religious, righteous zealots.

deny it at your peril.

While these blind fools are having the vapors about fundamentalist Christians, in Britain another representative of the Religion of Peace™ has been convicted of plotting mass murder: Man guilty of poison conspiracy. (Hat tip: Mark.)

A suspected al-Qaeda operative who stabbed to death a police officer has been convicted of plotting to spread poisons on the streets of Britain.

Kamel Bourgass is serving a life sentence after being convicted of murdering Detective Constable Stephen Oake during a 2003 raid in Manchester.

Reporting restrictions covering that conviction were lifted on Wednesday.

Four other men were cleared last week of taking part in a conspiracy. A second trial has been abandoned.

Another man, Mohammed Meguerba, who jumped bail and fled Britain, is awaiting trial in Algeria.

Police found a series of recipes, ingredients and equipment which would have enabled Bourgass to manufacture ricin, cyanide, nicotine poison and several other poisons. There were also instructions about making explosives.

Police believe Bourgass was an al-Qaeda operative and say he had discussed various ways of spreading nicotine poison, including smearing it on car door handles in the Holloway Road area of north London.