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"ONE out of two Australian non-Muslim school students regard Muslims as terrorists and many do not know or care about any positive contributions from the Muslim community, a study shows. A recent study of year 11 and 12 students found about 60 per cent of students had not learned about Muslims at school and about 35 per cent did not care. Many believed Muslims were unclean while others were able tolerate them from a distance. Initial results from a survey of 551 students conducted late last year found one out of two students did not have any positive feelings about Muslims. "One out of two says yes, Muslims are terrorists, full stop, no qualification," the author of the study, Abe Ata, a researcher from the Australian Catholic University, said today."

“The Iranian public does not feel itself under neocolonial domination, and many Iranian young people are not interested in Islam, since it has become associated in their minds with a hopelessly fuddy-duddy mulla-dominated Establishment.” Wrong. This has nothing to do with lost interest in Islam at all. If there was an interest to protest the Danish and others who reprinted these stupid cartoons about the messenger of God, there are many young and old people who could have done that. In fact if Juan Cole tried hard, he would know Iranians are under pressure from western countries related to nuclear technology which would have given them to show up and protest, they haven’t done it because they don’t see any benefit doing it. This includes all sectors of the society including the conservatives and the liberals; the young and the old; men and women alike. So Juan Cole wasn’t on the mark on this. “Moreover, most Muslims live in societies with strong traditions of state censorship, so t...