Ever since my last post, I have been thinking more and more about the topic of bigotry, and how it is becoming even more blatantly obvious in our daily lives. I began reading several articles on time, newsweek, the associated press, etc. on the New York mosque, and the consequences/protests that have started because of the plan to build it.
If you read this you'll understand what I mean. Some of these are completely unrelated to the New York mosque, but some are directly caused by it. In this article it names several examples of attacks on Islamic groups, everything from burning mosques, to slicing up a cab drivers neck and face because he was Muslim. These anti-Muslim sentiments aren't only being made by anonymous, little known people, there are actually people with (technical) political power. Sarah Palin can be seen here saying "Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate." on her twitter page. http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,2004752,00.html While refudiate isn't technically a legitimate word, Sarah has used it many times before, as a sort of combination of refute and repudiate, and the underlying meaning of this statement is pretty clear if you read it even once. They are saying that Muslims aren't equal and that they're somehow lesser beings/humans for following this "evil" religion ("evil" because it doesn't fit into their "all knowing and always truthful" religion of "peace")
As you can tell, I feel quite strongly about this topic. Not that I feel that Muslims are more important then any other group of people, or that Christians are lesser or anything, just that this type of hate is going on for no reason what so ever. I find it infuriating that these people can bad-mouth an entire religion when their only evidence is fear and ignorance. For those that don't know, the Muslim God, (Allah in Arabic) is in fact that same god as that of the Christians, and of the Jews. (that's right the Christian God, is the same as the Islamic Allah and the Jewish Yahweh) And because of this, this type of ignorance and hatred is even more ridiculous.
Now, not all bigotry comes in the form of religious persecution, there is also anti-black sentiments being thrown around like it's nothing by groups of people who feel that they are some how lesser for being black. I think that we cannot stop until we have stopped all bigotry, and that it should be considered a major social issue until we at least get some type of control over it. I know I'm not the only one that feels this way, and I think that we shouldn't let this type of behavior spread, it only makes the rest of us look bad for having to deal with these scoundrels.
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