Islam

Rally for American Muslims Against Isis

Steve2018-04-19T02:48:57+00:00December 9th, 2015|Tags: America, Empathy, Islam, Muslims|

joanofdarc:

This is my adorable, brave, intelligent father yesterday at the rally he organized, American Muslims Against Isis. #peaceformuslims (at Times Square – 42nd Street)

Islamophobia comes from ignorance, misunderstanding, and lack of empathy. This guy rules, obviously. He is courageous and amazing. But boy, I wish there were people like him -everywhere-.

I visited home last week. My family lives in Cranberry, a little suburb of Pittsburgh that has rapidly developed, population-wise and economically, in the last decade. 28,098 people reside there, and 94% of them are white. 3% of them are Asian. There are 351 black people in the entire township, and 107 “other race”. (data from http://cranberrybusinesshub.org/217/Demographics) It is noticeably homogeneous to me, almost creepily so, but that is because my daily norm is living in Boston – not exactly a pillar of racial harmony, »

I Don’t Know if Je Suis Charlie

Extremism doesn’t emerge from a vacuum. It’s not the territory of a particular religion or ideology. It isn’t some easy path. It doesn’t happen overnight. As a person who has walked down the street, gun in hand, thinking that I would kill, I can say this: You don’t get there overnight. You don’t get there alone. You get there after everything else you could imagine being good in life is gone, or you are sure the last good things are going to be taken from you. For most people, the day you pick up a gun is the day you don’t think anyone will hear your needs any other way.

I’m glad to see such in depth analysis and reflection on this story finally occuring. Reflecting on stories as complex as this takes time, and I think we would all do »