At work at the moment, so I'll check it out later. My point was that thinking that Muslims are all crazy isn't racism, it's religious intolerance. The usual atheist perspective is that people who are devoutly religious are either crazy or stupid, regardless of their race or culture... and I don't think that can ever really be separated from atheism, since one of its central tenets is that all religions are false.

I maintain that there is a difference between religious intolerance and racism, because religion and culture are not the same thing (though they have strong ties). If Harris' problem is with Islam as a whole, then that transcends culture. If he only has a problem with middle-Eastern Muslims, then yes, he is racist, but it isn't his opinion on Islam that makes him so.

Nobody but me thinks semantics are important. :(