You should read some of the stories, legends and "rules" of plenty of other religions in the world. Hindu widows were expected to burn on the funeral pyres of their dead spouses until early last century. The Emperor in Japan was considered a God until the end of WW II. "Christians" put Jews into gas ovens 70 years ago and also found biblical foundations for slavery 150 years ago.

Frankly, having lived in the Middle East and in countries with large numbers of Muslims, I'd rather spend time with lot's of the people I met there than with Pat Robertson, John Hagee and the Morman Leadership who ran that Church before they decided blacks had "whole souls" in the late 1970s!

There are incomprehensible rules and customs and there are haters and monsters in every religion. It is ignorant to blame ONE religion for everything evil that happens.

You didn't get ANYTHING that was in the article. Can you READ? Or are you just blinded by your hatred and bigotry of Islam?

You didn't see that the author was pointing out that the people who committed the evil act of 9/11 have more in common with some of the screwed up, empty loners in some modern English novels than they do to "medieval religious fanatics?"

Go back into your dark hole of ignorance and leave thinking people alone.

I am a Catholic, by the way. We had several lovely eras of burning heretics at the stake and slaughtering Muslims who wouldn't convert at "sword point." There was a time when Kingdoms could rise and fall because of religious conversions -- remember King Henry VIII? It also concerned huge amounts of money and treasure -- which is why the Catholics and the Muslims (and everyone else) have been known to be so "touchy" -- and violent -- about religious conversions.

The answers can often be found in history and literature. Not in the minds of frightened, ignorant people.

Why do you guys have to be so nasty?

You turn yourselves inside out trying to come up with different ways to hate Obama.

Obama was raised in a foreign country. Ick!

Obama pretends to be a bad bowler. Ick!

Obama is a bad bowler because he was raised in a foreign country. Ick!

Obama is too happy. Ick!

Obama pretends to be happy. Ick!

Obama is on "happy drugs." Ick!

Obama is too smart. Ick!

Obama thinks he is too smart. Ick!

Obama is too unknowable. Ick!

Obama is too arrogant. Ick!

Obama is a liar. Ick!

Obama is to self-aware. Ick!

Obama is too comfortable. Ick!

Obama is too Liberal. Ick!

Obama is too un-American. Ick!

Obama is too black. Ick!

Obama is too racist. Ick!

Obama is too sexist. Ick!

Obama is too this. Ick!

Obama is too that. Ick!

Why do you have to denigrate Obama just because you don't want to vote for him?

Support Hillary because you prefer her policies. Support Hillary because a woman president is your heart's desire. Support Hillary because you simply like her better.

You don't have to "hate" one candidate to prefer another.

Are we Democrats or are we a bunch of enemies?

This is stupid.

If the first woman candidate had been Janet Napalitano, Kathleen Sebelius or Maria Cantwell -- I think this poll -- a year into Hillary Clinton's run for the Presidency -- a campaign marked by the Clinton's "take no prisoner's style of politics" -- the poll would have come out much differently.

It was PERSONAL, Joan. Not business. It is a statement against Hillary Clinton whose negatives are growing HIGHER. Not a statement against a woman candidate in general.

Hillary's divisiveness has HURT women in politics. And her angry supporters are reminding the American public of the angry feminism of the past.

It is a terrible thing for early feminists like us to hear, but it is true. Why to you think the movement fell apart for a few decades? Anger may be the way to START a movement -- but it is no way to SUSTAIN a movement.

Hillary does not need to "compete" with Obama about who is oppressed more. Is there a prize involved? The representative of the group who is most oppressed gets to be president?

I almost clocked one of my best friends as she tried to convince me that, historically, women have been more "oppressed" than people of color," specifically blacks. I told her that it was "apples and oranges" -- one couldn't CHOSE a "winner."

Who cares? If there is anyone in the world who is oppressed or treated badly -- it hurts ALL OF US!

This is a specious argument -- and wastes our precious time. It is also a good way to "keep us down." The OPPRESSORS have always DIVIDED AND CONQUERED.

I have no idea why you are wasting your time with this. All of us -- anyone who has to fight for a "place in the sun" should work together to make the world a better place for anyone who is weaker. Period.

I mean, really -- does that mean we should all vote for that incompetent, war-crazy Condi Rice because SHE is the most oppressed minority of the world? A single, childless, black female?

This is just stupid.