Islamophobia has multiplied due to irresponsible right wing talk shows hosts, politicians, and websites that are exploiting the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Libya.
Sadly, Mitt Romney is adding to this hysteria by refusing to make it clear that America cannot declare war on the Islamic world, with its more than one billion population. He needs to calm the hysteria, but instead is contributing to it!
It is right that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton denounce the anti Muslim video that has caused demonstrations in the Middle East, and led to massive riots. We as a nation are not responsible for the reckless, divisive, hateful actions of right wing nuts and Christian and Jewish zealots who preach undying antagonism toward the entire Islamic world.
The reality is that we MUST coexist in this world, as a modern day Crusade would destroy this planet that seven billion people occupy!
And if we are not careful, we will have massive violence in this nation against our Muslim population, and massive retaliation by people out to defend their faith and their culture. The Muslim population overwhelmingly has denounced what happened in Libya and Egypt, and are trying to go about their lives and be good American citizens.
Just because there are some radicals does not mean that all Muslims should be painted with the same brush. Leave it to the FBI and CIA to handle that problem, as they have done very well so far!
Indeed, we need to keep watch over our own religious extremists who are willing to be outrageous in their behavior in the name of freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and do not care how they divide this nation, and put it under stress and danger, and undermine our national security!
Rachel Maddow brought up a good point on her show about the protests. They think the U.S. government was responsible for the YouTube video that mocks the Prophet Muhammad because the government didn’t stop it from going onto the Internet. They don’t understand free speech and they don’t understand the government’s role in regulating the exercise of free speech.
Report on Rock Center last night. Protests go deeper than just the Internet video. The people in the Islamic countries were fed lies that the US and Israel are fighting a war against Islam. The goal was to have the people focus anger elsewhere and not on the regime’s corruption.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/49027583/?__utma=14933801.432437388.1347631556.1347631556.1347631556.1&__utmb=14933801.2.10.1347631556&__utmc=14933801&__utmx=-&__utmz=14933801.1347631556.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)%7Cutmccn=(direct)%7Cutmcmd=(none)&__utmv=14933801.%7C8=Earned%20By=msnbc%7Ccover=1%5E12=Landing%20Content=Mixed=1%5E13=Landing%20Hostname=www.nbcnews.com=1%5E30=Visit%20Type%20to%20Content=Earned%20to%20Mixed=1&__utmk=107657218#49027583
Thanks for this, Amy!
Would love to see the media show some stuff like this as a balance to the angry mobs:
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2012/09/we-hear-you-libyans.html
Thanks for this link! It is important that people understand that what happened in Libya and is happening elsewhere is a small percentage of extremists, not reflective of the general population!