I only wish I could feel American before I die, but being 88 , i don't think that will happen. In spite of being born here. ab ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 2:03 PM Subject: Re: Words Use the User In a message dated 7/27/12 4:04:08 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Totally agree, > Likewise, being Native American / Mexican with Mix of > Mediterranean jenes. > The 20's 30's were common years of bigotry in my family, > also. so I suspect > it was universal among all humans and perhaps even worst > before. > > Yes, I do want to believe it is better now. And I want to think the improvement is accelerating because of such things as the internet and global cellphones. But then I consider the new bigotries that have emerged. It seems like the entire "West" is anathema in the Arab world. I wish the non-radical Muslims had the will and fearlessness to face down the radicals who find in the Koran what they feel is justification -- yea, more than justification: reward -- for killing infidels. (An infidel is one who does not believe in the Koran and the Allah of the Koran.) The radical apparently believes it is Allah's wish that anyone who has access to the teachings of the Koran -- and anyone who can read has access -- and yet does not embrace it, should be killed. I for one could never embrace such an Allah. Non-radical Muslims may claim the Koran does not advocate this, but the Koran is a long, dense and sometimes seemingly inconsistent book, and radicals apparently have no difficulty in finding passages that advocate exactly this. My point: No prejudice in my youth, or at any time before that that I've read about, has had such a horrific agenda as this. And it has arisen during this age of the internet and cellphone. I want to feel encouraged about the ability of these electronic info-bearers to expose and defeat such indoctrination, but it is hard to.
