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They think the same of Yale, Dartmouth, and Harvard as well.

Case in point: Creation Museum (my favorite paragraph from this article: “When the Gallup Poll asked people about their views on the subject in March, 47 percent of Americans polled said that God created humans pretty much in their present form some time in the last 10,000 years. That belief was strongest among those with less education, regular churchgoers, people 65 and older, and Republicans.”)

These Cornell students are moneyed and with that sheepskin will be the decisionmakers of the near future – they have nothing to lose and everything to gain by keeping the herd dumb.

Last but not least, it helps to know what those with such mentalities think of Brown.

When a crime and other injustice happens against a non-Muslim brown person, where the perpetrator clearly intends to victimize a Muslim, it upsets me when I hear or read people say things like, “But he/she wasn’t even Muslim!” — as if the fact that the victim was not a Muslim makes the infraction somehow worse, because the clear implication is that if the victim were a Muslim it would somehow be “more understandable.”

However, I’m glad when I read comments here expressing that crimes and injustices are just as bad no matter who the actual or intended victims are.

I agree with the idea that these things affect us all, no matter what our religious identity is. I can understand people feeling insulted for being perceived as something they aren’t. However, even if the favored hatred target of the day isn’t one’s own group, that group could easily become a target in a climate of hate. Vigilance against all hate is much better than solely concerning oneself with the hate aimed at one’s particular group.

Further, it’s much more productive to fight all hatred than to pass out pamphlets and flyers to haters telling them how to tell the difference between a given group and the hated group of the day.

There is a LOT of anti-Muslim rhetoric here (I’ve been checking the site out since late 2005). I’ve read posts where it didn’t even have to do with Islam but somehow or another one of these Hindutva type clowns started posting all these hadiths to implicate Islam was a bad religion and that Muslims are all terrorists and rapists of their fair Hindu maidens or whatever hate filled narratives they beleive in.

I’ve been reading this site from just before that time and I have never come across anything like that at all. Care to give examples?

As a muslim I’ve never found this blog to be offensive at all, on the contrary ALL of the bloggers and most of the commentators are very understanding when it comes to Islamic issues. I guess you’re just chucking an MSNBC/Newsweek and using one or two comments to judge an entire community (something which we muslims are constantly asking others not to do).

I guess it ok to stereotype to the southern United States. Last time I checked the South in the United States as made alot of process in the last 40 years.

Clueless, that’s why I did this ” ” around the term red-neck. And I only used it on here coz it was on here that I first came in contact with the term since my return from India, so I figured the term was “ok” with the bloggers/poster here on SM. I remember asking for a definition of “red-neck” here when I first saw it, based on the answer I got from a poster here on SM, I used the term above in the same context.