I have rarely seen a more appropriate ceremony to honour the fallen while in the service of their country. The circumstances surrounding the tragedy were such that everyone was shocked to see such blatant disrespect for fellow souls but fellow comrades made it even more bizarre.
People who act irrationally in the name of causes that are supposedly religion motivated makes events like this even more tragic. Here in America we have people who kill Doctors who perform abortions in the name of God.The ultra religious right have a perspective that cannot be understood nor tolerated. Whatever your feelings are about an issue, the taking of a human life to achieve what you perceive to be right is dangerous thinking.
There appears to be more radical groups springing up in the world with agendas that boggle the mind of rational people. There probably always has been but the media give these individuals and groups the platform they seek, publicity.
Anyway I personally felt that the President stood up to the issue yesterday and gave a strong message which should do much to make sure people will not paint the picture of Islam as a radical group but just some members who do bad things and happen to be Islamic.
I'm with you on this ... sometimes people do bad things - horrific things. But we have to see people as individuals and resist the urge to generalize and find a reason to blame a religion or race. There have been mass murders before this and I can't remember blaming Christians or whatever. Usually insanity was fingered as the blame.
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