Compassion

After reading some really disturbing things about what people are saying on the subject of mosques being built in this country (the particular one in NYC especially) I feel quite disheartened.  I am under the impression that Americans have lost all compassion towards fellow Americans and other members a part of their own human race.

The beautiful thing about this country is how open we COULD be with our beliefs.  If I were to slaughter an entire building full of people that would be wrong to just about everyone in this country.  However, if every "white" person who came after me walked into a building after that he should not receive hostility for my lack of respect towards life.  The people who killed thousands on 9/11 died in those planes...they are not building mosques in New York.  For us, as a people, to have a problem with this means that we as a collective nation do not stand for the beliefs that we say we do.  When we find out the horrible things other countries do to Christians, or women, or any other type of religion, we throw America in their faces.  BUT, here we can burn the Qur'an and believe that we are being patriotic and defending our country?

We as Americans have done just as many hateful injustices to the muslim people as they have done us...none of it forgettable...but at some time we must learn how to live with each other and make our past actions forgivable.

It grieves me that some people cannot feel for others.  That might sound lame, but it really does.  And I believe if you are one of those people who cannot then you have truly made decisions in your life to make yourself bitter and unhappy...and for that I am sorry for you.