Reply to Balto:

Amen--actually pronounced 'amiin' in the Semitic languages from which the word derives--means "So say we all."  Therefore I see nothing in the context in which the word was used  to elicit your sanctimonious objections .  Folks disagree with my own religious beliefs all the time, and as often as not attack me for said beliefs while knowing no more about them than they can inculcate from CNN, Fox, or the likes of Franklin Graham.  But I hold sufficient confidence in my beliefs that I'm not threatened by others' views, no matter how crudely expressed.  The surest sign of your own lack of faith is willingness to attack others for theirs (however wrong you perceive them).  Took me a while to learn that, and I admit I haven't learned it completely even yet.  But I try to act according to the words of a now deceased, very dear friend, who was the greatest Sunni scholar I ever knew: "Focus on what's right with Islam rather than what's wrong with Christianity."  Amiin.