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I just got out of my Comparative World Religion class a little bit ago, and, after watching our third film on Islam this week, and turning in all of our papers associated with various readings we've done over the past three weeks, our substitute teacher decides we're going to have a "conversation" about what we think of Islam now and if our perceptions had changed. The next 20 minutes was filled with condemnations of the violence of Islam and how Christianity is this great religion without any problems, and how people who aren't Christian are going to hell.
I could barely get a word in edgewise, and when I did, I was almost immediately shouted down by a significant number of fanatics. I'm pretty sure they didn't even hear or care what I had to say. And this is the next generation of adults in the US. 
I could barely get a word in edgewise, and when I did, I was almost immediately shouted down by a significant number of fanatics. I'm pretty sure they didn't even hear or care what I had to say. And this is the next generation of adults in the US.
). Even after reading legitimate papers on Islam, and even after watching legitimate documentaries on the subject, these students were still taking their ideas from things they saw on national news networks just hours or days after 9/11. Even an atheist talked about the "hundreds of people dancing in the streets". What's even more ironic is that the teacher just had us read a Newsweek piece from October, 2001 about why the Arab world hates us. It pointed out that the particular brand of extremism that the terrorists of 9/11 adhered to comes primarily from failed Arab states. I watched the guy sitting next to me read it during our last class. He ignored every word of it today.
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