"I realize your sensitive to this being a muslim"

newfilosofee:

Thanks for your concern Sean, but it’s not about me. It doesn’t bother me.

I don’t care if the whole world thinks that I am a terrorist. That is fine, I never knew terrorists listened to Mariah Carey and wear pink nail polish but that’s fine. Call me a terrorist.

But the concern here is, Muslim women walking to the grocery store with their children will be attacked. Muslim or “eastern looking” store owners will be gunned down. It happened before, it’s going to happen again. That is unfair.

People get depressed in the army, some even suicidal, this is not the first incident where a soldier or someone else started killing others, this is the only time it was a guy with a muslim name so everyone is going crazy about it.

“Stressed by war and long overseas tours, U.S. soldiers killed themselves last year at the highest rate on record, the toll rising for a fourth straight year and even surpassing the suicide rate among comparable civilians. Army leaders said they were doing everything they could think of to curb the deaths and appealed for more mental health professionals to join and help out.

At least 128 soldiers committed suicide in 2008, the Army said Thursday. And the final count is likely to be even higher because 15 more suspicious deaths are still being investigated.”

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/30/army-suicide-rates-hit-re_n_162484.html&cp

There are plenty of bad people in this world. Yes what happened to us because of terrorism towards our country was awful but should we blame a whole nationality because of it? There are amazing, wonderful, kind Muslim people in the world just as there are terrible despicable Americans in the world. We shouldn’t justify discrimination because of the fact someone is not American.

The killings today are extremely tragic and upsetting, I don’t think anyone would or could argue against that. But is the fact that this man was Muslim to blame? I don’t believe so. War and stress of war can cause people to do crazy things, to have crazy thoughts. I believe he probably had deep psychiatric issues that we don’t know about. The news reported that he is a psychiatrist but just because he’s a psychiatrist doesn’t mean he wasn’t suffering from his own demons.

I think we should look at it this way: Regardless of race, nationality, background, heritage, upbringing, etc we are all human. We are all related to one another in one form or the other whether it be blood or marriage. So we should hold the same respect & compassion to others just as if they were our family.