Muslims: Will we ever belong?
The New York Times is tearful over the treatment of Muslims in this country. The single act they have to use as an example is the attack on a Muslim cab driver in New York by a liberal film student. Some how that single attack reflects the constant danger in which millions of Muslims live every day.
“We worry: Will we ever be really completely accepted in American society?” said Dr. Ferhan Asghar, an orthopedic spine surgeon in Cincinnati and the father of two young girls. “In no other country could we have such freedoms — that’s why so many Muslims choose to make this country their own. But we do wonder whether it will get to the point where people don’t want Muslims here anymore.”
Eboo Patel, a founder and director of Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based community service program that tries to reduce religious conflict, said, “I am more scared than I’ve ever been — more scared than I was after Sept. 11.”
Yeah, when you can count attacks on Muslims in this country on more than one finger, I might worry with you. When the attacks continue when you start informing police about potential terror plots, I might be concerned for you. When the Muslim community condemns terror and terror’s supporters as a single, united voice and you still live in fear from liberal film students, I’ll stand with you.
Until that time, you reap what you sow.
Category: Media, Society, Terror War
lol, that and Bill Keller
That’s a question that through history, probably every person regardless of ethnicity has probably thought. The answer is pretty obvious. Words may hurt, but the will has to be stronger. and they’ll put America first.
When will they belong? When the become Americans and stop being separate and rioting every time they hear something they don’t like. Duh.
I spent 40 minutes on the phone last night with one of Kyle BARWAN’s ex-friends, a 21 year old muslim who says that he is Army bound. He denounced all the wacko muslims, denounced the terrorism, and just can’t understand why we don’t give the “moderate”(?) muslims a pass. Not once would he actually answer my continuous question as to why the “moderates” tolerate this shit. He agreed that the radicals are but a few percent, but couldn’t say why 9 “moderates” couldn’t shut 1 radical down. He is a stellar example of why the radicals are allowed to grow, to do their dirty deeds.
An analogy, a few years ago, my son and several of his cousins took another cousin “out behind the barn” for some education. The little shit went into an immediate “cease and desist” mode. Why expect we outsiders to police the radicals and stop them from bringing down the name of the “moderates”? Until they clean up their own mess, they will continue to be wary of “us”.