PS. John Cena does not mention the gun wielding whack job shooting unarmed and unsuspecting non-combatants in his description of ordinary people.
Like Anders Breivik, Jared Loughner, Adam Lanza, James Holmes, Syed Farook, Timothy McVeigh, Dylan Roof, Robert Dear, Elliot Rodger, Aaron Alexis, Jiverly Wong, Omar Mateen, Wade Michael Page, Nidal Hasan, Seung Hui Cho, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, and on, and on , and on........
But yeah, let's round up all the Muslims because they are the enemy right?
First of all, f*ck all these guys. I'm not claiming any religious superiority myself, and I'm certainly not saying "kumbaya, everything's fine". Not by a long shot. These scum ARE the enemy and they SHOULD be rooted out and put down.
Second, the ones that who are perpetuating their evil for "religious" reasons are the worst of the lot, I agree. Anyone who uses their stupid little fairy story book to devalue the life of others, to view anyone who doesn't follow their particular fairy story as less than human and deserving of death,
to judge everyone else as "other", and to justify their own psychopathic and murderous impulses does not get my sympathy. Trust me, I very much want bad things to happen to them. I'm not proud of it, but I too have a lot of rage and anger to deal with.
Third, the thing that is so maddening/frustrating is that I see so many people on "our side" doing exactly this same thing. Exactly. They feel that their little fairy book is the right one (ironically because their own god is about "love"!), and they use it to call for "war" on the others. In their views and "solutions to the problem" they are essentially identical to these a-hole "radical jihadists". The only thing that makes them just a little different is that the "jihadists" in question actually go out and act, while the others simply spew and rant in front of their computer keyboard. Both of them are justifying hate, destruction, and murder on a flimsy little fairy book, and both of them are SO convinced that they are on the side of the righteous. (And, oddly, both of their fairy books which they hold so dear to their hearts tell them to act otherwise).
Fight the enemy? Absolutely - hunt them down, root them out, and destroy them. I got no problem at all with that.
But who is that enemy? Is it all Muslims? Is it religious people in general? How about liberal pacifists? Or maybe it's gun owners? Maybe it's Trump or Hillary supporters? LGBTQ folk or Bundy Ranch militia? Could it be black/colored folk? Maybe it's fans of the rival to your favorite football team?
Here's the message in that video......blanket judgments (and executions) of entire classes/races of people are wrong, and are not worthy of actual patriotic Americans. We can do better than that, and we should.
I am not saying this is easy. Or even comfortable all the time. But I've got lots of friends and family whom I truly love and respect that are sometimes WAY on the opposite side of me on given issues. We argue and disagree sometimes. We even hurt each other when things get out of hand. But we CAN still come together as friends, as family, as Americans, and as human beings.......and we must. The alternative - putting up a fence between us, passing ultimate judgment on each other, and firing shots to kill over that fence - is simply not acceptable.
Muslims as a whole are not the enemy ..... nor are Christians, or gun enthusiasts, or vegetarians, or Fox News watchers, or queer folks, or latinos, or people who buy way too much Duck Dynasty gear. The closest thing we have to an actual category of "enemy" are people who think that violence/murder is the answer, that in particular use a little fairy book to justify this evil nonsense, and that act on it or plan to. So let's start looking at who that really is, huh?
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