In support of the American Muslim community
Sometimes with all that is happening in the world, and with all the racial and religious strife that appears to be happening in the US, we forget who we are and what our core principles are suppose to be.
I just read an article about a group of so called 'Christians', wearing 'F&* Islam' T-shirts and open carrying weapons, marching in front of a Mosque in Phoenix Arizona. The purpose was obviously to both intimidate the worshipers with the weapons, and denigrate their beliefs.
Seriously? In 21st Century America, we have people using the same tactics against other Americans that our parents and grandparents fought a war to stop. This is the same kind of obscene action taken against Jews before Kristallnacht in pre WW2 Germany. Have we learned nothing from the holocaust?Did we not learn from our own internment camps during that same period?
Just as importantly, have we forgotten who we are and what our country is supposed to stand for?
For all of our internal strife, our struggle against racism, our questioning the meaning civil equality, we have always considered ourselves to be the beacon of freedom, the light of acceptance and religious freedom to the rest of the world.
American Muslims are exactly that: AMERICAN as well as Muslim. It is both disrespectful to that community and to all other religious communities to allow the actions of radicals in other parts of the world to determine how we treat our own people.
To the American Muslim community: You are our brothers and sisters. You are our co workers, fellow taxpayers, our doctors, lawyers, builders, teachers, and students. You are welcome and your beliefs are as American as Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and all the other wonderful variations of spirituality in our country.
There are many of us out there who will NOT allow the Nazis to rise again and make any group a scapegoat for their own failures.
Never Again
I just read an article about a group of so called 'Christians', wearing 'F&* Islam' T-shirts and open carrying weapons, marching in front of a Mosque in Phoenix Arizona. The purpose was obviously to both intimidate the worshipers with the weapons, and denigrate their beliefs.
Seriously? In 21st Century America, we have people using the same tactics against other Americans that our parents and grandparents fought a war to stop. This is the same kind of obscene action taken against Jews before Kristallnacht in pre WW2 Germany. Have we learned nothing from the holocaust?Did we not learn from our own internment camps during that same period?
Just as importantly, have we forgotten who we are and what our country is supposed to stand for?
For all of our internal strife, our struggle against racism, our questioning the meaning civil equality, we have always considered ourselves to be the beacon of freedom, the light of acceptance and religious freedom to the rest of the world.
American Muslims are exactly that: AMERICAN as well as Muslim. It is both disrespectful to that community and to all other religious communities to allow the actions of radicals in other parts of the world to determine how we treat our own people.
To the American Muslim community: You are our brothers and sisters. You are our co workers, fellow taxpayers, our doctors, lawyers, builders, teachers, and students. You are welcome and your beliefs are as American as Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and all the other wonderful variations of spirituality in our country.
There are many of us out there who will NOT allow the Nazis to rise again and make any group a scapegoat for their own failures.
Never Again
posted by junesxing at 9:22 AM
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