There are times in my life when I am almost seriation my brain is going to explode. Today was one such day.

      I am in college level english. At this point in our careers we should be written with eloquence, few grammatical errors, and sentences that are near publishable. My english class is anything but educated.

     Our class was assigned a reading from our text book called "Is a Holy War Inevitable?" by Karen Armstrong. I recommend reading it. The goal of this essay was to enlighten readers about the Muslim culture, religion, and belief system. I enjoyed it very much and found myself learning a great deal. It quoted Koran scripture and over all taught the reader some very important aspects of the Muslim people.

    The next day we were in class was the day to discuss the reading. The professor (who I am becoming less and less fond of) posed the following question:

     "Do you believe Armstrong presents a balanced discussion of eastern and western religion or has she simply rationalized the terrors the United States experienced seven years ago?"

     I swear it was like the world stopped when this idiot started speaking. I will, of course, never remember her comment word for word as I was not anticipating record breaking ignorance here, but I will try to get it as accurate as possible. Brace yourselves, your brain may hurt after this, as mine does now.

     "I think she was making it okay that the Muslims bombed us."

     Poof! There goes my brain! Almost instantly i started shaking my head and looking around to see if anyone else found this even the least bit wrong. No one! I could not make this up. Not a single person found anting wrong with what this moron just said. I of course had to step in.

    "The Muslims did not bomb us. First of all Muslim is a group of people similar to Americans. Second of all we were not bombed. We were attacked by airplanes that 2 of our epicenters."

     I don't understand how one person can make it so far in life and be such an idiot. I realize I am not attending Harvard but am I seriously surrounded by idiots. We are all old enough to remember the atrocities that occurred that day. I guess she was too busy becoming the youngest girl to lose her virginity. Lofty aspirations.

     Another alarming point this poses, is the fact that people actually believe an entire nationality is out to get us. What happened to the trade towers and pentagon was not the product of an angry culture, rather the Radicals clashing with our culture. In Armstrong's essay she suggests it may be from their hatred of westernization, and attempt to place the blame solely on the United States. The radicals want to stay "fundamental" to the Islamic faith. And westernization is making this even harder.

     Do many of you know much about the Islam faith? Are you aware that Mohammed (their prophet) saw himself as an extension of Christianity? Their Koran states "We believe in the same god. Your god and our god is one." Verbatim people.

     I didn't mean for this post to be come a religious rant, however I truly believe that if someone is going to open their mouth about such a widespread issue, they should know what they are talking about.

-As a little humor for all of you laughing at that horrid wenches remark...A few moments later the professor gave her extra credit for knowing what year it was in the Islam faith. (she looked it up on her blackberry...and still got extra credit) As someone who prides themselves on working damn hard for the grade and trying to sound intelligent in everything she does, I find it humiliating that the same professor giving me a's is also providing her with extra credit for  being a bimbo. Maybe they are screwing, either way they have both lost my respect. -