Is it cool to be ignorant, full of stereotypes and racist nowadays?

well well well..it'been a long time since I last wrote.
It's not that nothing happened in the last six month, I think actually that even too much has happened. I don't regret I didn't write before, though I really feel like writing some notes now.

As a start, let' s explain the title. I read today the newspaper (the Volkskrant - Dutch newspaper) and there was a flattering article about how brave are the people who spread shit about Islam and that once were Muslims themselves, and a history of their redemption.
In the article there was also a nice reference to all the "cool" people that once were Catholic or Jews too and that " luckily" now they can distinguish between, let's say, the"bullshits" of their holy books and the "real life".
The article sounded quite pathetic to me, in its attempt to portrait the message of the monotheistic religions as in antithesis with the "real world".
As if there is no other possibility than either being a ridiculous aggressive intolerant fanatic that takes every little word of the holy books as undebatable either being a ridiculous intolerant ignorant about religions at all.

I regret to say that there are thousands of other ways, in between these too sides, and that unfortunately nowadays it doesn't sound cool to be in one of these middle-position, because apparently only ignorance and redundancy of stereotypes is noisy and appreciated...

Will this trend ever come to an end?

I don't know, but it seems to me that there is quite an interest in keeping hate between believers, religion prejudices, etc... by mass- media, writers, and intellectuals in general.
An example? why on earth, after all has been written about the eloquent message of xenophobia and racism by Oriana Fallaci (allegedly she was a "writer"and she passed away couple of years ago), the Italian mass media still portraits her as a hero of our times? a hero of what? according to the brand new article I read today on the Corriere della Sera online, a new book is going to be published, thanks to the efforts of her nephew. In the intro of the interview to the Fallaci nephew, the journalist writes an incredible detailed review of all the remarkable efforts of Fallaci throughout more than three decades in depicting the striking cultural differences between the West and Islam, and in attempting to warn the western society of the " Islamic invasion".

I would like to point out that Fallaci was a journalist that wrote several books about ideas on " how to get ride of them" (i.e. the Muslims and immigrants of other ethnic groups than western, from Europe), in which, in comparison, Mein Kampf of Hitler is a nice good-night chamomile.

Even at the European Union headquarters her books sounded quite nasty. But still. Italy, with its more than one million immigrants of hundreds of different background, carries on its attempt to increase hate, ignorance, and prejudice amongst its citizens.

I guess the Italian government, mass media and intellectuals think it's cool.
I don't.