To Prajna on attitudes towards muslims

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Prajna wrote:

 

I really hope these kinds of attitudes towards muslims

in general are beginning to lose their strength.

Americans especially have a really negative attitude

towards Islam. It's important to remember that all

religions have something precious and valuable at

their heart

 

 

Dear Prajna ~ I personally have never had any negative attitudes towards

muslims, and one of my great fears after 9/11 was that there would be hate

crimes in America against muslims. Thankfully, there were only a few, but that

was

a few too many.

 

When I grew up, as a child and young teenager, I lived in a very racist

family, racist against African Americans. For some reason this never rubbed off

on me, and I could never understand it. I felt embarrassed by it, horrified

when I was yelled at for playing with a black child, and confused when I

transferred to a new school that was in a more southern part of Maryland, and

the

principal apologized because there were blacks in the school. I really couldn't

even understand it.

 

For whatever reason, some human beings will come up with reasons to see

people of other colors, nationalities, religions as "the other." This then lets

them perpetrate all kinds of bad behavior because "the other" is not quite

human. We must all do what we can to keep this poison out of our own lives and

challenge it when we see it.

 

I agree with what you say about every religion having something precious at

its heart. Over the course of my lifetime and studying many religious

traditions, I have realized that, once the outer kernel is pared away, the sweet

fruit of Truth is the same in all. That Truth is so simple, and yet, so hard ~

Love, just Love. Love God/dess in everything; love everything as God/dess. Jai

Ma ~ Linda