A worth reading article by Kathleen Parker in Washington Post. After the bombing, every ethnic group was praying and hoping that the perpetrators do not belong to their group. The author writes;
“As the manhunt for the Boston bombers reached its climactic conclusion, Americans of all hues and backgrounds heaved a sigh of relief. Thank goodness it wasn’t . . . fill in the blank:
● a white Christian from the South;
● a dark-skinned Muslim foreigner;
●an illegal Latino immigrant.
Thank goodness.
The marathon bombers, officials say, are of Chechen background. Huh? Is that, like, in Czechoslovakia or something?
. The mere fact that the brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, were connected to Islam was sufficient for some to justify holding all Muslims in suspicion.
The relief, meanwhile, was that “our” demographic group wouldn’t this time be blamed. Even darker-skinned Muslims, familiar with group demonization following 9/11, reportedly were relieved.
Whom do we hate when the enemy is a composite of our own diverse ecosystem? When “them” is “us?”
Even a tiny percentage of 1.5 billion Muslims, or 21 percent of the world’s population, who have embraced jihad is enough to give pause. Moderate Muslims share that pause
Once we begin to discriminate in the assignment of rights to citizens and legal residents based on their thoughts, religious affiliation, assemblage — or our own assumptions — we risk becoming our own worst enemy. Click link below for full article;
Posted by F. Sheikh