Getting caught up in semantics is pointless. Whatever the name "Islamophobia" does exist clearly in the world around us.

Fear used as a means of control is as much an act of terrorising the population as any action which takes human lives. The severity of such terror is clearly different but I would argue that the hype placed on terror to keep it in the minds of every person is great. Speak to many people about when 9-11 occurred and they will be surprised at how long ago it was.

Many people live in constant fear and this is clearly not a good thing. Instead of calming people and rationally assessing facts, we find ourselves frequently charging headlong at an enemy which has no fixed identity. When we live in fear, we are halfway to losing the battle against terror.

Understanding and education; facts and rational discussion (rather than unfounded proclamations voiced with an uncompromising attitude) cast light on the darkness which creates such fear and gives us a method for combating it. Failing to understand in an unbiased manner, the mentalities and opinions of our neighbours, of whatever race or religion and failing to address their worries and issues is what perpetuates an environment of distrust, miscommunication, hatred and ultimately of suffering. Painting an entire population with a broad brush and stereotyping them as having one mentality does nothing to solve the differences and issues between us. Radicals and terrorists can not hide when their own people would expose them. It may be that building trust and cooperation between all communities in our societies may create bonds that will prevent such danger from going undetected. It's worth thinking about...

Too frequently, irrational fear-mongery in one form or another is forced upon the general population for political agendas, I think it's good that someone is at least willing to discuss this.

I like how he says "Some wars of aggression have recently been stopped or curtailed because of a revulsion felt by the people in the aggressor nations. The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvanism and to rabid nationalist fervor are beginning not to work." An interesting phenomenon indeed.

This is a pretty damning documentary. Very difficult to watch but worth every minute.

Interesting how divided the US is these days. Certainly more divided than any other nation I know of today. I remember hearing a comment that it's not been as divided since the days of the American civil war, anyone think that's true?

Very cool. This provides the closest thing to a balanced opinion I've seen as to whether facts or "truths" matter most today.

Love this game. It's brilliant. A few friends and I were trying to make a game in the spirit of FS2 with Newtonian physics but we couldn't get the funding to take the project past our first demo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACWjTFrGy18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzUlbyBDnhE

Crappy graphics, I know. It's only a short demo, we'd have to do way more work to get it to publishable state.

The dream of a new good space sim lives on.