Yet another beacon of ignorance and hate has flared up into the skies for all to see and be ashamed of...
In protest to a faith they know nothing about, a faith they deem "of the devil" a nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida is holding an "International Burn the Quran" day on the 9th anniversary of September 11th.
This makes me so upset that I literally feel physically ill just thinking about it. Here we have a group of people, people who claim to follow a religion that is supposed to promote love, a group of people who are supposed to be good Americans, a group of people who should be descent humans acting despicable because of their ignorance and fear.
It's hard to be mad at people for being stupid. Some people are just stupid and that's honest truth. However...ignorance is a choice. Ignorance is a state of being uninformed. Instead of trying to become informed these people have decided to let the Right wing media decide how they should think and act. I'm willing to bet that non of the individuals at that sham of a church have even bothered to read the Quran. I won't lie. It does have some incendiary stuff in it, but so does the Bible. In fact every ancient religious text does, especially those derived from the Abrahamic texts. This makes me so upset that I'm tempted to hold a "Bible Burning" in protest to them, but I'm intelligent enough to know that burning a bunch of books really isn't going to accomplish anything.
The events of 9/11 were committed by extremists. Extremists who's ideals were well rooted in ignorance, just like these unfortunates in Florida. They are wrongfully attacking Islam and in doing so they are bringing us as Americans, and Christians everywhere down into the mud.
As a society we should work to quell ignorance and fear whenever and wherever we can, but when that ignorance and fear breeds hate it's a sign that we aren't working hard enough. Hate brings us all down. Hate makes us all look bad. I implore anyone who reads this to spread the word and speak out against the ignorance and hate. Only through education can we rise.
Good lord, what a bunch of idiots. The world is watching and wondering how on earth we could be world leaders when our country contains such poor excuses for human beings.
ReplyDeleteNot just an idiot; creepy as all fuck. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/bizarre/koran-burner-creepier-you-think
ReplyDeleteAmen Michael! When I first heard about this on the news I actually did get sick. I have never been more disgusted with a human being in my entire life. What's even more unbelievable is that after they have been in formed and are well aware that their actions are instigating riots and threatening the lives of other human beings over seas they claim that if a human life were to be lost that it would be "unfortunate, but at the same time they don not feel responsible." What a load of bull.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the education is concerned I agree. Unfortunately educational programing is now available in the form of 30 sec. music video snippets, because it seems that's all today's generation is interested in and books have practically been tossed out the window. :(
"Haves" need to have "have-nots" to make themselves feel better. Muslims comprise (at most) 1% of the population, and are therefore easy to target and paint as any evil you care to name. Why not? The odds are that the people hating them don't know any and aren't likely to meet any (that they know of). The same cannot be said of the controversy surrounding Hispanic immigration, but the underlying reason is the same. We want to have someone to put down and someone to blame for whatever problems we experience, rather than accepting that our society/faith/government is (frequently) fallible.
ReplyDeleteMy suggestion to the zealots is that if they truly feel that Islam is harming the souls of its devotees, perhaps they should work towards the conversion and salvation of those people. Isn't that what your faith advocates? If I wanted to convert someone to the church of the flying spaghetti monster though... I wouldn't start by blowing up their church or putting graffiti in their hymnals. I might bake them a pie. People like pie, even Muslims, and that's what its all about. Liking pie. Anybody who likes pie is o.k. in my book. People that don't like pie should probably be placed into internment camps until they become more gastronomically tolerant.
~Ardan