All these thoughts!

Well, I think I'd better share instead of keeping them to myself...

Today, as I was walking to the university campus from the metro station, I was thinking...

It's funny how when people want to recruit others towards their own beliefs, they often set about attacking the beliefs of others. In particular, I was thinking about certain videos I had recently seen on YouTube, published by (if I remember the name correctly) "atheistmediablog" or somesuch. The videos contained some laughable content attacking Islam. The interesting thing is, the beliefs being portrayed are neither scientific nor representative of the teachings of Islam or the beliefs of most reasonable Muslims. I believe they call this type of portrayal the "straw man fallacy": attacking a weak form of an argument (which is often an inaccurate representation) in an attempt to bring down the argument as a whole. I personally did not feel threatened by these videos, nor, do I believe, should any reasonable person. The problem I have is that these videos are a misrepresentation of what the people posting them are attacking (Islam), and this does no good for them. That is, any rational person would be able to distinguish that even if the said videos show that Islam, as a worldview, is wrong (something that they fail to do), they do nothing to promote atheism as a system of belief. I'm just surprised at the number of such things that spring up across the Internet.

I welcome your thoughts.