I DON'T KNOW

[HairOfTheDog]

I agree that years ago it was different. I think the media showing beheadings and the atrocities outnumber anything good that might come along. If people only see one thing attributed to one culture they form an opinion based on their exposure.

Yeah, I see your point. When I lived in Japan, most of the the locals regarded L.A., California (and, in some cases, the whole U.S.) as either Hollywood-like or always enveloped in a Rodney King type riot. That's what they saw about America in the media.

But, when it comes to Muslims, it doesn't seem to matter much to a lot of peple in the U.S. how many good peaceful American and foreign Muslims they encounter or hear about. They think that all followers of Islam want to destroy the non-Islamic world and that all the ones who seem good are just lying in wait or something. Case in point: Sarah Palin.

Palin has been chiming in on the Ahmed Mohamed story.



'Yep, believing that's a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history,' Palin wrote in the Facebook post. She also shared pictures of her kids' pencil boxes (inset top) and compared them to the homemade clock (inset bottom). 'Right. That's a clock, and I'm the Queen of England,' she added.

...Well, the Queen of England, Sarah Palin, just called the Obama administration the most transparent in history.

Pssst, Sarah -- nobody disputes that the device is a clock (except you). Ahmed was never accused of making a bomb. A teacher, a principal, and investigators reportedly suspected that he might be trying to pass off what is, in fact, a clock as a "hoax" bomb.

She kills me.