"Islamophobia"

[TaraJo]

Fundamentalist versions of every religion do crazy things like that. The only problem is that in the Midde East, the theocratic governments have pretty much taken over which pushes things even further towards more and more fundamentalism. Christianity has done some crazy as hell stuff, too, when the church was the government.

It shows very little faith in the morality of the men though don't you think?

Not really. More than anything, I think it's a sociological thing more than religious. Poverty, lack of education and violence all seem to come together in a package deal, whether it's religious or secular. A lot of the hate in the name of religion is just uneducated people trying to find a scapegoat for their problems. I think, if the regular people of the middle east had the opportunity for a good education and they had money to take care of their every day lives, we'd see quite a bit of change in Islam. We want to say religion shapes society, but I see it happening the other way around: differences from one society to the next change religious beliefs. Look here in the US: most of our nation are Bible believing Christians, but they're more than willing to ignore the parts of the Bible that say to kill people for wearing clothes made of a mixed fabric or animal sacrifices.