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charliesmumOne of my high school acquaintances just put an 'anti-mosque' rant on her FB, and it just makes me aggravated. Well, actually, in her defense, she says she thinks it would just be a target for anti-Muslim feelings and maybe they should just go somewhere else to be safe, but it still kind of comes from the same place as the idiots who hear 'mosque' and that's it.
It frustrates me no end, because I don't understand why otherwise intelligent people insist on seeing everything in binary terms. People who were Muslim bombed the Trade Center, therefore all Muslims are evil.
Do they not see that by building an Islamic center (Not just a Mosque, mind you, a center) it is saying to the world that we do not hate. That we say to those who seek to demonize us that we are not the intolerant, evil, godless villains of the piece, and that we wish to see past our differences in order to reach peace and understanding.
But no. These people want to have their black hats and white hats and to tar all people with the same brush, at the same time decrying the terrorists who are doing the same the same thing.
Rant over.
It frustrates me no end, because I don't understand why otherwise intelligent people insist on seeing everything in binary terms. People who were Muslim bombed the Trade Center, therefore all Muslims are evil.
Do they not see that by building an Islamic center (Not just a Mosque, mind you, a center) it is saying to the world that we do not hate. That we say to those who seek to demonize us that we are not the intolerant, evil, godless villains of the piece, and that we wish to see past our differences in order to reach peace and understanding.
But no. These people want to have their black hats and white hats and to tar all people with the same brush, at the same time decrying the terrorists who are doing the same the same thing.
Rant over.