Facebook, the latest Islam basher

Facebook's unholy war of words troubles young Muslims

After joining the social networking Web site Facebook in April, Essma Bargewee spent hours on the site daily. But the 21-year-old Montclair University student recently deleted her account.

Bargewee, a practicing Muslim, soured on the Facebook phenomenon after getting embroiled in a controversy over Facebook groups denouncing Islam and other religions. In July, a self-described atheist created a group with a name that explicitly curses Islam, angering many Facebook users.

The group's creator, who goes by the screen name "Variable Variable," also administers groups targeting Christianity and Judaism as "false ideologies," but the harsh condemnation of Islam -- and the expletive in the group's title --has drawn fierce backlash.