I can't claim to be completely connected to mainstream contemporary culture, but from conversations I've had on the street while busking and while working as a waiter, the idea I'd heard most often from people is that It's purely Muslim.
On one side of the issue, people were saying that the Muslims in the region (obviously not the Muslim Americans, since we actually see them as opposed to a media representation of them) hated the Christians, and felt that all the "infidels" should be killed.
The other side of it was that the Muslim faith and the Christiand faith do not and cannot mix, and we should get ourselves out of there because just the butting of the two ideologies would cause problems, regadless of what was going on.
I, who have studied comparative religion, knew that both faiths praise the same God, the Muslims believing that Mohammad was the most recent prophet, as Christians believe Jesus to be the most recent prophet and Jews believe Moses to be the most recent prophet. However, just looking at the way people were reacting to information, the idea I got of the situation is extremism on both sides mixing like gasoline and chlorine, that moderate voices were few and far between and the middle east was a complete and utter hotbed of religious chaos. I'd hoped the situation to be as it is, with people existing in peace despite differing ideologies, but hadn't actually seen it till now.
On one side of the issue, people were saying that the Muslims in the region (obviously not the Muslim Americans, since we actually see them as opposed to a media representation of them) hated the Christians, and felt that all the "infidels" should be killed.
The other side of it was that the Muslim faith and the Christiand faith do not and cannot mix, and we should get ourselves out of there because just the butting of the two ideologies would cause problems, regadless of what was going on.
I, who have studied comparative religion, knew that both faiths praise the same God, the Muslims believing that Mohammad was the most recent prophet, as Christians believe Jesus to be the most recent prophet and Jews believe Moses to be the most recent prophet. However, just looking at the way people were reacting to information, the idea I got of the situation is extremism on both sides mixing like gasoline and chlorine, that moderate voices were few and far between and the middle east was a complete and utter hotbed of religious chaos. I'd hoped the situation to be as it is, with people existing in peace despite differing ideologies, but hadn't actually seen it till now.
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