Sleepy Sunday reading: Ask a Shiite

Sundays were obviously made for reading. Just like Fridays were made for beer and Wednesdays for humping. If you have 15 minutes to spare, and you know you do, then read on…

Consider for a moment how our media these days portrays Muslims, Islam or anything remotely middle-eastern. If you think on it for a minute I’m sure you can rally up all the usual stereotypes we’ve loved over the past 6 years. The classic Koran misquotes of, “kill the unbelievers wherever you find them.” and so on. There’s a laundry list of them and they have completely permeated our culture.

With all that in mind, take your 15 spare minutes (14 now) and read this article: Ask a Shiite: Perceptions of America in the Middle East

The discussions inside the comments are even better than the initial post, so be sure to read those also. Obviously there are a lot of individual opinions in there. The whole thing should make you think though. How much of what you believe or think you know comes from one possibly uninformed or maligned source? Maybe it’s good to actually read these kinds of things and get a clue of your own? Statistically, the majority of Americans are illiterate and have no self-informed opinion. That’s not you, is it?

- shawn

[source: prose before hos]