Posted on 09/14/2001 1:52:43 PM PDT by Starmaker
The sad stories of misdirected anger, bigotry and backlash aimed at Muslims who are American citizens is emerging in the news already. Since the U.S. government has not officially made any declaration of war, some Americans are venting their frustrations at the Muslims who have peacefully lived here for years and are American citizens.
This type of bigotry and misdirected lust for revenge has to stop!
Yes, I have to admit the government is slow. The intelligence arm of the government was either badly directed or severely limited in its efforts to collect intelligence on terrorists and their planned activities.
That is absolutely no excuse for American citizens of any non-Middle East ancestry to strike out in vengeance against Muslims or Arab-Americans who have no guilt with respect to what occurred at the World Trade Center or the Pentagon, or on the commercial airliners.
Terrorists are no one ethnicity. Hitler's terrorists were Germans, Europeans, "whites" or "Aryans". I remember Hitler. I remember how relieved this nation was when he died. A brutal murderous maniac had been silenced forever, but his memory and his deeds are not yet forgotten.
Because I love animals, I cried at the stories of how frustrated American citizens tortured little dachshund dogs and puppies because of their German name. How brutal, how monstrous, how cruel could our own people get? This is almost sixty years ago, and I still remember!
Now I am going to ask again, since I have just had a conversation with an out-of-state friend about anti-Muslim acts of individual revenge ... brutal beatings ... in his midwest city. He is a minister, and we discussed what was both G-dly and American, and it was my suggestion that he just preach it! We are to let our government take action against the terrorists. If we think our government can't do the job, then we need not think we as individuals can.
All we can do is reinforce the world's attitude that we're Ugly Americans.
Those who are sympathetic to us now because of our suffering might well decide, if our personal acts of revenge against innocent Muslims continues, that we deserved the WTC bombings. We don't need that.
Vigilante attacks ... thug attacks ... on innocent men, women and children simply because they're of Middle Eastern origin is senseless, brutal, stupid, inhuman and demonic.
As I began writing this article, I heard an Arizona woman tell a talk show host on radio that "all Arabs should go home." Lady, if they're born in America, this is their home! The same goes for Blacks, Mexicans, Cubans, Asians and any other ethnic group born into or naturalized as a United States citizen.
I realize our people are angry. The measure of our honor, virtue, worth and unity as a nation is in how we respond to the terrorists, and taking out frustrated anger on innocent people is SIN.
We've been condemning the Afghanis for their treatment of western Christians. Are we any better if we do the same thing here out of anger?
The only way to get rid of terrorists is to condemn all terrorist acts and avoid any of our own against those living here on our own soil. We can't condemn others if we intend to become as guilty as the terrorists from abroad. Even if it turns out that a half dozen or a dozen of the terrorists were American citizens, remember this: some of our worst spies have been Anglo-Americans!
Americans, shape up and demand that the government do "whatever it takes" to take out terrorists. And stop the bigotry. Stop the vigilante vengeance. Stop the beatings and threats against the innocents. Stop it now.
If you bigots want to see America under martial law, you're well on the way to bringing it about. I want to remain free, and increase our freedoms, but only law-abiding citizens who believe in constitutional freedom have any claim to it.
Stop this senseless bigotry and hate—PLEASE.
Not so fast. It all depends on who and where their loyalty is to.
No kidding. There are a bunch of people that are US citizens that should be shown the door too.
Like it or not, the Muslim threat is internal, not external. There are entire neighborhoods of "muslim-Americans" that harbor, recruit, and train these terrorists right here in the U.S.
Turns out that McCarthy was correct.
The Muslim 5th column are many of the so-called "Muslim-Americans. Aiders and abeiters right here in the U.S.
When the U.S. government imprisons people and hands down the death penalty for merely being Islamic, then I'll worry about it. Do we really think that is happening? Hurt feelings are the least of our worries today, and that is what this bleat is ultimately all about. We have had eight years of seeing the Constitution used to wipe 'rat sphincters, and I'm not pleased to see people of any stripe use it to wrap red herrings (or any other fish, for that matter).
Ed
within the next three minutes, please.
Ditto. If they are smart, they will make a special effort to distance themselves in any and all ways from terrorist-sympathizing/American-hating Arabs who are in this country.
But the redneck, blanket, shotgun (throw rocks at anyone looking Arab) approach is not going to work, I believe.
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