[WARNING: YOU’LL PROBABLY BE OFFENDED READING THIS. BUT YOU’RE GOING TO ANYWAY, SO I DON’T KNOW WHY I’M BOTHERING TO WARN YOU.]
I think it goes without saying that the September 11th attacks are on everyone’s mind today. Whether you were alive or not at the time it happened, you’ve probably heard about it by now. No matter what country, no matter what creed, you have been told of the inexplicable terrorist attack that rocked the United States of America. An act perpetrated by Muslim terrorists that hated us (and still hate us) more than any other country in the world, even Israel.
I feel the need to speak out on this because of a curious event last night. I don’t know if any of you follow me on Twitter, but I publicly expressed my displeasure with the hashtag #AfterSeptember11 on my Twitter account. I try to stay away from anything overly controversial with this account, as I have started to use it for promoting my blog, but I was (to use my own words) “disgusted” by what people were posting with it.
I expected people to memorialize the sacrifices made by emergency crews and the deaths of 3,000 individuals who were just going about their day when they were attacked. I expected to see people supporting our troops and the struggles they face before, during and after deployment. I expected a patriotic awakening for at least one day out of the year, when we could simply remember the victims of these attacks and how greatly our soldiers suffered at the hands of terrorists in the subsequent war.
What I saw instead was a non-stop stream of hatred and the victimizing of a religion that inspired these terrorist attacks in the first place.
We live in a country where it is practically illegal to speak out against Islam, even if you are expressing a mild opinion or simply making an observation. God forbid you point out the hateful and violent roots the religion was born in.
We live in a country where our veterans are not getting the proper healthcare they need. We see soldiers coming back daily suffering from PTSD and other trauma-inflicted mental illnesses. Our VA is failing to treat these soldiers fast enough, and 18-22 veterans per day commit suicide, possibly more. Why is it that we’re focusing on the so-called problem of “Islamophobia” when we should be concentrating on taking care of our vets? Why are we as a society more upset over a dead lion than we are the families of our fallen?
This hatred that has spread over our nation has turned it on its head. If you are American and express your love for your country, you’re shunned as “racist,” “privileged” or “xenophobic.” Since when did having national pride become discrimination? Since when did supporting our veterans mean that we were warmongers and supporters of murder? We appear to have no qualms about killing the unborn, but defending our country against people that want to behead us is apparently frowned upon.
I fully expect to have a mass unfollowing from this post. But you know what? I’m not afraid to speak my mind. This is my blog, and I fully intend to keep it that way. No one is going to dictate what I can and cannot say, and though I try to keep the topic of mental health my main focus, sometimes things just need to be said. Keeping my conscience clear is good for my mental health, and it wouldn’t be clear if I didn’t speak up for the supposed “minority” of people who still love this country and recognize a threat when they see one.
I, as a Christian, do not hate anyone. I would like to make that clear. I do not subscribe to the view that disagreeing with someone means you are hateful towards them. I do, however, subscribe to the view that a religion that tells its followers to kill unbelievers wherever they find them is hateful. That is hate. Killing people because they disagree with you is hate.
God bless our troops, our veterans, and those who have fallen. I choose to remember this day as a day when America was forced to sacrifice innocent lives to a hateful group of people, because that’s exactly what it was. I will not forget. I will not let it be erased.
I will remember.
Well said. This IS a day to remember the fallen.
Agreed. Those who died for our freedoms fighting terrorists deserve so much more than our country has given them. We can at least remember them and keep our veterans in our prayers.
So, while I’m not sure if you’re saying that all Muslims are bad people (in that case, I have to say I disagree), but I do agree that a religion that believes that other religions or those who don’t believe what they believe, should be killed, is a dangerous one to follow and that it’s sad that there are religions out there like that.
I think the important thing to remember about 9/11 are the lives that were lost and that the cause of 9/11 was hatred, not necessarily from Muslims, but hatred in general. So many bad things come from hatred.
While I don’t believe that all Muslims are bad people, I attribute this to the fact that they are the ones who want to reform the religion by disassociating themselves with the violent parts of the Quran. But ignoring the core tenants of your religion simply because you don’t personally agree with it doesn’t change the religion itself.
The Quran also says it’s okay to lie and deceive unbelievers in the name of Allah in order to accomplish Islam’s goals of spreading their religion worldwide (meaning a caliphate aka Islamic State). Therefore, I can’t fully trust any Muslims because of this part of their religion.
Muhammed actually started out as a peaceable guy, but when his fellow Arabs didn’t accept his worship of one god, Allah, as the only god, he fled from Mecca to Medina (formerly Yathrib, which was originally settled by Jews) and started killing Jewish settlements.From there, his path of violence continued.
There’s a whole mess of history on Muhammed out there, but a lot of it is left out because the truth reveals Islam to be a violent religion whose main goal is jihad against unbelievers. If you ever get the chance, read “Religion Of Peace?” by Robert Spencer, or his companion book “The Complete Infidel’s Guide To The Koran.” It’s a very thorough review of the teachings of Islam and the contents of the Quran and the Hadith.
I think the problem is those who believe in violence and also those who use their religion as an excuse to be violent. I think saying you don’t trust any Muslims is a dangerous thing, since I think prejudice and racism can be very dangerous.. I do respect you saying that hating anyone is dangerous though and I respect you stating your opinions.
Islam isn’t restricted to one particular race. There are people from all walks of life that are Muslim, so I don’t think I’m being racist by being against Islam. It’s the religion itself that I have a problem with, as it is a violent one. The danger lies not in calling out Islam for what it is (in terms of being “prejudiced” against it), but in the fact that anyone who speaks out against is immediately pounced on by supporters of Islam and verbally thrashed. And that’s the mildest consequence. There are Muslims themselves who have been killed because they converted to Christianity. Apostates are reviled in the Muslim world, and there are repeated incidents of these murders in the United States.
I thank you for respecting my freedom to speak out. I’m not saying any of this to put you down in any way. I simply want you to fully understand where I’m coming from.
I do respect your freedom to state how you feel and I know that you’re just trying to support your beliefs and explain them to me. I think the bottom line is that violence is not the answer and that a person shouldn’t use religion to promote violence. I hope you know that I’m not trying to argue with you, just trying to share my opinion like you have yours.
Oh, I know, dear. 🙂 I didn’t feel it was an argument. And I agree! Violence in the name of any religion is wrong.