{"id":13644,"date":"2015-12-26T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T19:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=13644"},"modified":"2015-12-26T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T03:40:00","slug":"peace-on-earth-it-starts-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=13644","title":{"rendered":"Peace on Earth. It starts with me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;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&#8217;s life in any way. If you&#8217;re wondering why, you need to think about it for awhile.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This contains a very very graphic video of a woman being attacked, killed, mutilated and burned<\/em><\/strong> because someone accused her &#8211; <strong>ACCUSED HER<\/strong> &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000004108808\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you feel, as we all feel from time to time, that you can&#8217;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.generosity.com\/community-fundraising\/let-s-give-the-gift-of-a-fresh-start\" target=\"_blank\">community effort of Humans of New York<\/a>. Most of those donations are small and heart-felt and will make a difference in many lives. <\/p>\n<p>Let peace and goodness start with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;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. 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