Some interesting points in this article…
**Challenging Ignorance on Islam: a Ten-Point Primer for Americans
by Gary Leupp**
(COUNTERPUNCH, 24 JULY 02): People with power and influence in the U.S. have been saying some very stupid things about Islam and about Muslims since September 11. Some of it is rooted in conscious malice, and ethnic prejudice that spills over into religious bigotry. But some is rooted in sheer historical and geographical ignorance. This is a country, after all, in which only a small minority of high school students can readily locate Afghanistan on the map, or are aware that Iranians and Pakistanis are not Arabs…
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp0724.html
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