Re: I came to GS to learn about Muslims
see its okay if you come here to see what Muslims are like on a bulletin board where pretty much anyone can blab his head off. if you wanna learn about Islam, as posters above have suggested, learn from proper sources so you can distinguish what is Islam, what might be sect specific, what is person specific, what isnt even relevant to Islam.
I actually have a very similar, very bittering experience from posting at guardian talkboards. its almost always american, pro bush posters slanging against liberal europeans, a certain number of pro Israel and some pro palestine ones, and Muslims there get a lot of battering from all (except the liberals). I dont think that joecharnock99 et al should tell me much about americans are in general.