I remember growing up and having a first-hand look at racism. It happens when everyone is one color and you are the odd one out. That's okay because I grew up all for diversity. I remember learning about slavery and things my ancestors had to fight for and survive just so I could have a house, vote and be treated equally. I thought I would have seen the end when I was 6 and called the n word. It didn't. It got worse. It continues to be bad. We have the KKK ready to hurt people for the color of their skin. People are not taking action against them. We have people in Congress trying to stop the good the President is trying to do. People are just joining them thinking that Healthcare for all is horrible and does not help anyone. Now, we have a minister, who is supposed to be teaching about Christ and all he did and believes, he is going to stop the "extremists."
Let me tell you something. He is extreme. We don't need to save ourselves from the extreme people in other countries but we need to protect ourselves from the extreme people in this country. A minister who thinks people in his congregation need to burn the Quran is wrong on many levels.
1) This will endanger our troops overseas and cause people to retaliate. It may possibly put our troops back in a war we are trying to get them out of.
2) NOT ALL MUSLIMS BELIEVE IN THE EXTREME VIEWS THAT THE BAD ONES DO. Just like all Christians are not bad neither are Muslims. There are always people to take it to the next level.
3) What happened to freedom of speech and religion? We as Americans are all different. Most people in the U.S. have or had descendants from other countries. Who are we to deny the right of their religious choices?
I thought America was supposed to be a melting pot. More and more I see it as a country that likes to deny rights. Who is to say my rights will be the same when I wake up in the morning? I am seeing them change overnight from the Immigration law in Arizona to denying people a religious place of worship because of a few bad people with the same religion. Ridiculous. Do you ever wonder why other countries do not like Americans? If so read into this. Americans are hypocritical. We are coming from a country that says one thing, does the complete opposite and people don't know whether we will help them or stab them in the back.
I don't blame people in other countries for not liking us. I see why they don't. But we need to show them not everyone is like what they see on the television and not everyone believes in the same ridiculous things that the idiots do.
Not all Muslims were on the planes on September 11, 2001. Not all Muslims believe that was correct with what happened that day. Not all Muslims hate Americans. Not all Muslims are extreme. Just the same...not all Americans and Christians died on the September 11, 2001. Not all Americans and Christians believe it is right to burn books from other religious beliefs and blame the whole. Not all Americans and Christians are Christ-like and supportive of what God and Jesus wanted for all of us. Not all Americans and Christians are extreme. If we were would all Bibles need to burn? Would it be okay for Muslims to burn the Bible because we bombed there place to live?
I am not the best Christian but I try. I believe in equality and equal treatment of everyone no matter what. I am an EOP... Equal Opportunity Person. I don't believe all people who do not look like me with their hair and skin color are bad. I don't believe they should be ridiculed and treated like I was. I have friends who are not like me at all and I love them. I don't believe in burning any religious books and I believe in trying to be Christ-like. That minister is not and will not be Christ-like. He is not trying. People in the world please do not think all Americans and Christians are like that because I know a few people who are not like that at all. I am not like that minister but are you?
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