Well, it seems like the Muslim issue is coming up yet again. This time around, NPR fired Juan Williams for some honest, if not enlightened comments about Muslims. But let's be honest here, or maybe i'll just be honest, how many people don't at least do a double take when they see a turbin on their plane? I don't think this is necessarily some sign of evil intent or a wicked heart. Not only have radical Muslims hijacked the religion and terrorized the world with violent acts but all over or TV and movies, we see Middle Eastern men shown as terrorists plotting to kill us. (And nobody at NBC should say anything about Williams' comment as long as the differently stereotypical "Outsourced" is on.) Williams made a confession of his own prejudice. Personally I think that he should have been applauded for revealing his own weakness.

Unfortunately, like with most issues today, the rational discussion over political correctness run amok has, well, run amok itself. Instead of defending Williams and addressing that, yes, we all hold prejudices, it has become an attack on Muslims and how Williams was actually correct for having his prejudices. Bill O'Reilly on The View touched upon this issue and the focus group with Frank Luntz brought out the problem even more.

The woman who mentions the Bridgeport Bombers (around 2:20) brought up a key point and didn't seem to think about it. She said that Arab groups often don't stand up against these radical groups because they fear "they'll be a jihad against them." That may very well be true. But her response to that is to help the Muslim moderates? No. She seems to agree with the others on the panel who are just blindly labeling all Muslims as terrorist, saying they simply don't care, and basically OKing Anti-American religious persecution. I know that Luntz had a lot of people to deal with but I really wish he had pressed the man who brought up WW2 more because America went beyond mere hate back then. Nobody likes to mention it because it's a part of our history that we've pretty much wiped off the ledger but the hatred for the Japanese led to internment camps. People will say "Oh no, we know better now." but we really don't. The land of the free and home of the brave has gone back to the "Not in my backyard!" ways of WWII and desegregation. Bill O'Reilly seems stunned that Barrack Obama would defend another mosque, this one in Tennessee of all places, but that's what freedom of religion is all about. And the more we fight any mosque from being built, the more ammo for the radicals and the harder it becomes for moderates.

I mean, seriously, if you were a moderate Muslim stuck between a radical arm of your religion and a majority of Americans who basically hate you, why would you stick your neck out? And the "Islam is the problem" crew can't really react to this because it's not like the Catholic church has fallen on its sword and stood up against itself. From burning "witches" to molesting children, Christians have more than enough sins in their past to prevent them from throwing the first stone. It's also hypocritical when Christian blast Muslims as violent and then turn around and label homosexuals as abominations and make jokes about how the murder of Matthew Shepherd was how gays should be treated. Where was the Christian outcry after those comments?

There is a problem in the House of Islam right now. But the way to help solve it and the way that America is built to address it, is to SUPPORT the law-abiding believers and help them root out the people misusing the faith. Of course, you look at the political climate in the US and see more fear and hate than cooperation so it's hard to think that we'll be able to extend a helping hand to the Middle East if we can even treat each other with common courtesy.