What I would really like to see is the Muslim community promoting some positive images of Muslims working to bring people of all faiths together. Where are they? Why aren't they taking steps to improve their image? Many of the supposed Muslim charities have been accused of funneling funds to terrorist organizations.

I know that the most extreme of any group, be it liberal, conservative, Christian, African-American, or any other group of like minded people, seem to get the attention of the media. Unfortunately, this is happening for the Muslim community.

Why is it that converts to the Muslim religion tend to gravitate towards the extreme fringes? Think of the Oregon lawyer, or that young kid captured in in Afghanistan.

These are questions that I would like to have answered so that maybe we could figure out ways to end this scourge.

Then again, I find all religion distasteful, because there are representatives in almost every version who have misused its teachings for their own gain or plunder. Examples are easily found, at all levels, both historically and currently. Look at the Catholic Church, systematically hiding child molester's activities from the public. This is as bad or worse than Muslim clerics calling for the deaths of those who think differently.

Politics is one thing, but religion is the root of this evil. The Muslims are just as bad as the Christians, with one sect saying that their form is the one true form and that all non-believers are doomed. How utterly ridiculous. Their love of their beliefs are bass-tardized as a way to justify the killing another person. Until people realize this, we are doomed to repeat the past.

Maybe religion needs to be abolished. Then we could all concentrate on just trying to be good humans. Isn't that the true goal of religion?