Wednesday, September 8, 2010

The ongoing debate

Time magazine is not the only source of a very popular question of late: are Americans Islamophobic?

And here's the latest from the Washington Post.

...Know what you're opposing, folks, if you insist upon opposing it. Perhaps you'll find that, were we to take the time to try to understand matters at a deeper level (or any level, goodness.), our opinions would alter. My best friend in high school was of the one Jewish family in town; my roommate in DC last semester was an observant Muslim, born in Pakistan; I (born and raised Protestant Christian... in a house of avowed Republicans) spent Easter making brunch with my closest friends in DC, the four of us accounting for Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Hindu upbringings- American, Mexican and Amerindian, Polish, and Canadian-Indian. ...And I still have a lot to learn.

I have, however, already briefly battled this, as one may find (if interested) here, so I'll refrain from hashing over it once again at the moment.

Shanah Tovah to those celebrating Rosh Hashanah and, soon enough, Eid Mubarak to those celebrating Eid al-Fitr.

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