Jeroen wrote:
> The evening news here reported that since last Tuesday there have already
> been about 100 incidents in the US of agression towards Muslims. This
> ranged from namecalling to "go back to your own country!" to threats to
(oh
> horrors) two instances of some assholes shooting at a school where Islamic
> children were taking class.
And every public and official reaction in the US has been the same: Fury
and horror. These attacks have been universally condemned in the strongest
terms. On the other side of the equation, I've got a friend in Dallas that
beat the crap out of a "Good Old Boy" that was attempting to beat an
Arab-American senseless with a steel pipe. Dan has described the interfaith
events in his area. Americans of every color and background have united and
are rolling up their sleeves to get to the important work of healing and
rebuilding. Don't curse us all just because of the actions of a few
demented assholes that live here.
> This is precisely why I feel that all those "let's strike back with
> everything we've got" advocates are way out of line: it is exactly their
> kind of rantings that lead to agression towards people in the US who's
only
> "crime" it is that they pray to a different God.
No, it's sick minds that decide that harming innocents is the answer. I'm
sure that, given just a few minutes, I could find a proportional number of
acts of aggression in The Netherlands. There's assholes everywhere, and
they're not hard to find - just follow your nose.
> May Allah have mercy on your souls.
I hope he has mercy on yours, too.
Adam C. Lipscomb
