I'm not sure of the point you're trying to get across with this post, but you're right that no one in this ignorant society every learns anything. This issue, or issues, with the extreamist Muslims could be settled in such a more simple way than what's going on now. The muslims simply feel supressed and are pissed off. They feel like everyone's becoming their enemy and they're getting so wound up that they feel the need to retaliate and fight.

If no one cared what I did, if no one cared about anything but their own self interest, things would have the possibility to become so much better. There wouldn't be so much hatred and senseless descrimination because everyone would be too busy dealing with their own lives to shout out and hate someone else who simply believes, dressed, looks, or acts different.

And the pope? The Pope was an idiot for that comment. Has he appologized yet?
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