Only 14, Bangladeshi girl charged with adultery was lashed to death

[Spitfire of ATJ]

186. I've already seen what you think I do....

I'm an atheist and consider ALL of it to be as valid as belief in The Great Pumpkin.

I also see the media making an effort to portray Islam as being a faith of a bunch of primitive savages based on the acts of a fanatic minority that take things out of context.

Christianity could be equally portrayed as such by lifting select articles.

Let's face it. Before 9/11 a majority of Americans never heard of Islam. They were laughing over hypocritical TV preachers having affairs. Most were talking about the differences between Christians and Jews and even among the Christians there were the Baptists, the Catholics, the Evangelicals, the Presbyterians, the Greek Orthodox, etc....even the Amish.

Then 9/11 comes along and Americans discover there is a whole part of the world that is different. "Different" is "bad" by default so the right wing that has been infiltrating their churches for years fed into their fears and told them all kinds of lies about Muslims including the idea that America is a Christian Nation and the Islamic World had declared war on us.

Oh, and look how terrible they are to their women!!!

Meanwhile, things ARE getting better.