Mother and children on the way to school, town of Bastam, NE Iran.

Everywhere I go in Iran, I see people preoccupied with survival and raising their own as best they can. Who has time for hate when just raising a couple of rug rats takes so much energy?

Funny, people in America are also preoccupied with the same kind of things.

So where is all the fear-mongering coming from?

Next time, my fellow American, you’re clicking through another hate-fest on cable “news” or come home from church so convinced that Islam is driven to destroy your way of life—think about whom the talk serves.

Is it really the average Moslem mother and father who wants to hurt you or maybe, just maybe, the people who generate the slogans have something to gain?