Multiple Psychosis
Submitted by gregflynn on Fri, 03/30/2007 - 10:13pm.
I am sick and tired of people dumping on Muslim people like it's open season year round with no bag limit. The people in this picture were among many Muslims last Saturday in Research Triangle Park raising money for Multiple Sclerosis research. They weren't killing infidels, they weren't stopping to pray, they weren't waving copies of the Koran. They were walking to help find a cure for a debilitating disease. I didn't see any "crusaders" at the fundraising walk. Now if we could just find a cure for mass psychosis.
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This is the problem
with our media, and talk radio. They have made muslims to be extremely bad people.
Not every muslim is bad, a terrorist or someone that wants to kill me. There is a very small amount of muslims that fall into the extremist catagory, but by what our media is saying, the muslim people are a sespool of horrible people willing to blowup their own children to further their cause.
There are bad muslims just like there are bad americans. you have to look at each person as a person to determine if they are bad.
I personally belief in the overall good of anyone and until they prove they are bad, I will give them the benifit of the doubt.
If every muslim was bad, and willing to blow themselfs up there would not be a building standing in any major city in the world. Only a vocal minority are bad.
Judge by actions, and not by association.
We were led here.....
by the leadership of this country over the past 6 years. Hopefully that will change soon.
The Psychosis you speak of is the result of the Bush Adminstration fear mongering and "Us against Them", mentality they have sold to the American people. FEAR is a stong political tool when rightly crafted for that purpose. The Bush Administration and The Republican Party have become the masters of articulating FEAR into our hearts and minds.
I lived in the Middle East, Egypt, Kuwait, Iraq, for a total of 8 years.
I know many muslim people and call many of them my friend.
Like you and I , most simply want to live in peace and are not crazy religeous fanatics.
That being said I will also say that there are many very, very evil people who happen to be muslim and have successfully planted the seeds of fear in to the heart and minds of their fellow muslims.
Not fear of America, but fear for their own lives and safty. Fear that speaking "out of turn" could get them killed. In the Middle East, the fear is justified. Speaking out against radical Islam can get one killed. So long as that fear is greater than the need to be free from it, it will prevail. A very sad situation.
America must not allow fear to drive us, to possess us , or to prevent us from resisting the evil in the world, no matter how ominous it may seem. Greater Freedom is our greatest insurance.
I Agree with You
I haven't known many Muslims, but the few I did know were some of the most generous and kind hearted people I'd ever met.
My friend from Saudi brought me steak while I was in the hospital. (I had missed a picnic with the family)When I didn't show up - he came looking for me.
He and his family were the first to show up to visit me. I'll never forget that.
I'm not picking on you, Parmea
But I'm going to use a statement in your post to point out one of the problems that compounds this issue.
"Muslim" is not a nationality. It's a religious identification. You can be American, and Muslim, just as you can be American, and Christian, or American, and Jewish, or American and Pagan, or American, and no religion at all.
However, There are people who claim the religion of Islam who do evil things, just as there are people who claim the religion of Christianity who do evil things, just as there are people who claim the religion of Judaism, who do evil things. Actually - there are people who do evil things all the time in the name of their own religion. Horrible.
Yet those, like the ones that greg pointed out above, who go about the business of doing good works in the name of their religion and for the sake of their fellow man, are often not recognized. And that is even more horrible.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi
True, True
The issue of being Muslim is difficult to grasp. In our country, religion is not an intrigal part of our government. The guiding beliefs and priniciples of the person in office is swayed by their religious belief. We accept diffrent beliefs and belief in equalities on the principles of freedoms.
In the middle east where the ability to seperate church and state cannot happen, it is often times hard to also seperate the two when discussions are presented.
You are correct with what you said, it is a religious action driving these people in the middle east.
Religion is over the soverign state and local government as we would know it. We have to realize that when we discuss issues with nations in that region.
So long as the various nations will not bring their respective peoples out of the middle ages, the world as a whole is in trouble. If the wrong faction of the Muslim religion gets control or power of a soverign state, then those practices will flourish.
I truely dont have a problem with muslims so long as their beliefs are not imposed on me (plural).
I miss your writing greg flynn.
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More on tap
March has been a busy month personally and yardwork has multiplied exponentially with this great weather we've been having which provides reason enough to be outside. As you can see I was "walking" last weekend and just this morning I was the neighborhood Easter Bunny:
My spare time is divided between being, doing, reading and writing. Life has so much potential it's hard to choose sometimes and even harder to understand the people who make life difficult for others and can't just let them be.
Oh, now you are just too cute. :)
My daughters both have a good number of Muslims in their grades at school. The "International" part of the school was taken very seriously by our international community around the university area. The girls love it. It's especially nice that the families are invited to come talk about their experiences in their native countries. It's been wonderful.
Sadly, I know some of these kids are not treated well outside the school. I've witnessed some of it in the summers at the swim club we all seem to belong to. It's rough and its been an eye-opener for my girls. Fortunately, they're both willing to stand up for their friends.
Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.
In high school
Once of my best friends was Pakistani. She was, to put it simply, one of the most amazing people I have ever met.
People fear what they do not know. Simply meeting new people, and understanding that 99 times out of 100 we will be able to find common ground with someone no matter how different from us they look is the only way we will ever fully erase prejudice.
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