Excellent, D. Cross posted and linked at Poodyheads. The daughter of a friend of mine (the friends are Arab Christians) had her wrist broken by a bunch of young people during the first Gulf War. Because she was of Arabic extraction. Another acquaintance, a Sikh from India who wears the traditional Sikh turban, has been yelled at and harassed because, OMG! He wears a turban, he must be an Arab terrorist! Not that it is acceptable to discriminate against Arab or other Middle Eastern Muslims, either. People are idiots. We have a friend who says "People are a near miss." I would extend that to say that people are a far miss. :-(
Thanks as always for the post to your site. And I actually had it as Sikh and Muslim in the original draft, but changed it because of the situation in Russia/Ukraine. Truth remains. I remember watching all the horror on 9/11 and thinking that a lot more innocent people are going to suffer, here in the US and abroad, for our knee-jerk ignorance.
Excellent, D. Cross posted and linked at Poodyheads.
ReplyDeleteThe daughter of a friend of mine (the friends are Arab Christians) had her wrist broken by a bunch of young people during the first Gulf War. Because she was of Arabic extraction.
Another acquaintance, a Sikh from India who wears the traditional Sikh turban, has been yelled at and harassed because, OMG! He wears a turban, he must be an Arab terrorist!
Not that it is acceptable to discriminate against Arab or other Middle Eastern Muslims, either.
People are idiots. We have a friend who says "People are a near miss."
I would extend that to say that people are a far miss. :-(
Thanks as always for the post to your site. And I actually had it as Sikh and Muslim in the original draft, but changed it because of the situation in Russia/Ukraine. Truth remains. I remember watching all the horror on 9/11 and thinking that a lot more innocent people are going to suffer, here in the US and abroad, for our knee-jerk ignorance.
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