It doesn’t matter what your religion is. If it condones violence of any kind, intolerance of others because of their beliefs, or their color, or their lifestyle, your religion is a failure. It has not improved the world, or your life or anyone’s life in any way. If you’re wondering why, you need to think about it for awhile.
This contains a very very graphic video of a woman being attacked, killed, mutilated and burned because someone accused her – ACCUSED HER – of burning a Quran. The police were willing to take her to a nearby police station but could not contain the mob. At the very end of the video, the text says that a court ruled that she had not burned a Quran.
The Quran is a book. Pieces of paper with printing on it. It contains ideas that do not go away if the book is destroyed. If you think that someone destroying such a thing is just cause for killing them, you are wrong. You will always be wrong.
If you feel, as we all feel from time to time, that you can’t make a difference, take note that 17,721 people have raised $719,199 so far in two days for eleven families immigrating from Syria, through the fine community effort of Humans of New York. Most of those donations are small and heart-felt and will make a difference in many lives.
Let peace and goodness start with you.
Mary Beth beautifully expressed. All people need to love themselves before they can love others. Simple thought.