I didn't like the suggestion our soldiers were bowing in 'submission' - our President does enough of that for us. It wasn't the soldiers I objected to - but the command.
I have no desire or need to know Islam. What I know about it is our President's obvious 'love' for it. I know their faith triumphs the law - burka on for DL photo, for instance. I know that Christian kids were hauled off to jail a few years ago for praying outside the school before school and we now have rooms for the Muslims to pray their several times a day prayers. I know our President won't allow the deportation of Muslims. I know our President hired an ad exec to teach him how to make them 'love' us. I know Powell said they were going to bring more in to this country to educate them so they will 'love' us. That list could go on --
I know how our government is reacting to it and that is all I need to know.
But it is the really new conservative (actually copied from the lefties)way to call someone ignorant if they have an opinion different from yours. Now you could use that very useful word "RACIST" - except I think Islamics come in all colors. Maybe there is a new word just waiting to be coined - besides Islamophobe - like religiphobic - some 'intellectual' will come up with it.
I really wish someone would come up with something a little more creative this ignorant, boorish, Xenophobe, racist is beginning to sound like parrots. I appreciate originality even in those whose opinions are different from mine.
Knowing and appreciating the world outside your own very narrow and iconoclastic box is good.