Asia Times' Spengler examines America's views of Islam and finds that except for our elites, American's views are unfavorable and hardening: Never in American history has the gap been greater between the experience of ordinary Americans and the picture of the world drawn by the intellectual elite. Hollywood has not distributed a film about Muslim terrorists for a generation. The major media go out of their way to portray Islam favorably. But when a line is drawn in the sand over a public gesture to Islam, we find a seven to three margin against. We should conclude from this exercise that America remains a Christian nation in marrow and bone, despite the atheism of its intellectual elite (only a fifth of professors at elite American universities say they believe in God, compared with about nine-tenths of the general population). [4] Most Americans do not confuse a God of love with whatever radical Muslims might worship. Former president George W Bush told them that Islam...(Read Full Post)