PCB I think you are a very intelligent young woman and I have the utmost respect for you and for Islam. I think we can find ugly things in just about any group of people/religions/races, etc.

Unfortunetly we westerners do hear all the ugly stuff about Islam so that is our only information source besides you.

This is why I personally get turned off by religion, sorry for those with strong feelings about it I just feel like it separates people too much.

Obviously there are good things in Islam, all those billions of people who believe can't be believing in something that is only promoting violence, etc. Please don't be hurt by all of this I know its a big job for you to explain it to all of us but we do appreciate it and I do think some of the questions posed to you are meant to be inflammatory sometimes but just take it with a grain of salt and an opportunity to inform.