03 Dec Terror and Ignorance
Have you taken time to educate yourself about Islam, or are you terrified due to ignorance? I have heard intelligent people, people I once respected, say things like, "We should annihilate them," as their response to what westerners call "Islamic Terrorism." Granting the benefit of the doubt to people I know, and many I do not know, I think it is terrified response due to ignorance, or more cynically due to Orwellian tactics. Even the term "terrorism" abused over and over again by civil authorities, religious leaders, and the media belies an expectation on their part that the American population is too...