Google is claiming that the reason their search engine does not complete the phrase “Islam is”

but does have suggestions for “Christianity is”

is not because they are censoring search results, but because they have a bug:

But the query “Islam is”? Not a thing comes to mind for Google to suggest. (Search results are still there, of course.)

It’s enough to get some to conclude Google is censoring itself, perhaps as a result of complaints for suggestions that one guesses are just as flattering as those for other faiths.

But Google says it’s just a software problem.

“This is a bug and we’re working to fix it as quickly as we can,” a Google spokesman told Wired.com.

The bug obviously needs some work, because it has overlooked Mohammed: