On Mosques and Qurans

There’s been a lot in the news about the islamic faith and those that follow it’s doctrine. ILYT has said her piece about Pastor Jones and though the points have been made over and over again, I figured that I’d say mine since all of this is about freedom of speech anyway .

Mosques….

Yes, choosing to put a mosque near the 9/11 site was not the most thoughtful choice. We all get that. And yes, our country was wronged several years ago by a group of extreme believers. But NO, we don’t shouldn’t make generalizations about everyone in this group and cast them all to damnation because of the mistakes of a few. If we did that we would be doing the very same thing that folks to do us. Think about how much you’ve had to go out of your way to show that you aren’t Tyquan who’s been locked up befo’ and ain’t afraid to go back….or that you are Shiekiesha who’s only goal is to make babies and get that gubment check. I was talking with my 06 about the whole thing and I think she had a very valid point that I don’t think a lot of people recognize. If we start meddling in one religion (thus overlooking the separation of church and state)…then that allows the government to also begin making decisions about other religions. Now the bible thumpers that are pushing for intervention against the builders of the mosque would be too through if someone told them they couldn’t build their church in a certain spot. I just think this shows the shortsightedness of people. (Note: shortsightedness is another thing that I’m quickly losing tolerance for and what sadly left off of the list…along with selfishness.) Take a look at the bigger picture, everything is fine when action is being taken against someone that “we” seemingly all have an issue with , but when it comes to you-what? Again, I don’t think this is the right location for the mosque, BUT I also don’t believe that the solution is to introduce the government into this battle and let them debo the whole thing.

Qurans…

Pastor Terry Jones is a southern preacher of the Christian faith. And like many southern believers- he’s got an opinion and it’s a strong one. So he proposed that we all burn a quran on anniversary of 9/11. This has become huge and basically catapulted this lesser known pastor to the headline news. We all know that the best way to make ourselves known is to come with shock factor looking at you Amber Rose, Onika Manaj, Kat Stacks (that’s twice in less than 24 hours), and the list could go on for miles . This is exactly what Pastor Jones has done. And aside from all of the obvious wrongs or ills of this…my biggest issue is his shortsightedness (see what I did there?) This man’s proposed event has led to protest in Afghanistan, and while they are currently non-violent….we don’t know what the future holds. What’s my point? We have our soldiers over there, not to mention the thousands of civilians over there making that guap for a short stint in a war zone. His actions are putting our people in danger. His actions are threatening those that made the decision (on some level) to be selfless and put their lives on the line. I have a military family, and while my parents are retired and do not run the risk of deployment, my big brother does. It’s unfair to start a fight with someone then push your boy in front to do the physical fight oh wait, we already did that . Ugh…let’s not perpetuate it.

Moral of the story, everyone is different. Period. But our differences don’t necessarily give us the right to oust a group because of such wait, we already did that too . I guess what it comes down to is that we’ve just got to do better.