I Am Intolerant

Yesterday, my brother sent an e-mail to a dozen people.  It was a video about muslims.  He received a couple of responses from people who thought the e-mail was intolerant of muslims, and who made the case that muslims are good people from a religion of peace, and that there are only a 'few' muslims giving bad names to a good religion.  They made the case that Americans are over-reacting and being intolerant of these peaceful people. One lady was absent-minded enough to write that if it wasn't for the muslims who murder, beat and behead their wives and children in the name of shariya law, they would be just like any other Americans.

Hmmmm. 

Although I appreciate moderate positions regarding Islam, or any other topic, I have lots of unanswered questions. I've heard for decades about how good the muslim people are.  If it's true that the majority of American muslims do not support terror and hate, why don't we see more muslims standing up for religious freedom and tolerance?  The Imam who is working on getting a mosque on the site of one of the buildings destroyed on 9/11 has REFUSED to denounce terrorist groups.

I have seen numerous videos of muslims, in MY country, burning American flags and denouncing MY country.  We have American muslims being recruited out of the mosques all around the country.  We have muslims on various campuses in our country who riot and protest whenever a guest speaker shows up who is not a supporter of hamas, or who is Jewish, etc.  These are not isolated incidents, they are routine.

There is a zero tolerance policy among muslims toward Christians, Jews, Hindus, etc.  These same zero-tolerance muslims have refused to denounce terrorist groups around the globe.  There are millions of muslims in the United States and only a few have ever stood up to denounce terrorist groups.

If they are a religion of peace, let them assemble in the streets of America and 'March for Peace' or protest terrorist groups.  I have NEVER seen that happen, even in the ten years since 9/11.

Muslims fathers who murder their children, beat their wives, and behead them for religious infractions, are not examples of extremist muslims in the mountains of Afghanistan, they are real examples of  'mainstream' muslims living in the USA.  The Fort Hood army officer who massacred 8 innocent people is one of many examples of 'mainstream' muslim hatred.  I'm sick of being asked to be 'tolerant' of evil.

I would LOVE to have truly peaceful muslims worship peacefully in my country, and would like to know their culture and enjoy their society.  But, let them stand up and denounce all that is violent and ugly, and support MY religious freedom, and support MY country and wave a copy of MY constitution.  I don't see that happening anywhere.  Instead, we have shariya law being touted and supported.

ANYBODY who would have shariya law become the ruling thought anywhere in MY country can get the bloody hell out of MY country.

All this idealistic, overly-academic crap about the 'religion of peace' is wearing me down. 

People often refer to the teachings of the Savior, and that we must love and care for God's children everywhere.  However, tolerance does not mean 'accepting' evil.  The same Jesus who taught us to love and care for one another, chased the money changers out of the temple, turning over their tables, scattering their belongings, surprising the evil-doers, even getting their attention with a whip.

I accept that the truest form of Islam is good, and I believe God loves and blesses people of ALL religions who are trying to become better people.

My disgust is not directed at a religion, as I fully understand there are evil Jews, Christians, and Mormons.  My disgust and my INTOLERANCE is with a CULTURE that allows the beheading, and beating of women and children due to shariya law, and to those same people who have ZERO RESPECT for me and my country.  The same people who demand that we be tolerant of their barbaric laws are INTOLERANT of my religion and MY culture.  They are the same people who are NOT standing up for peace, and preaching against terrorism.  The same people who remain silent about terrorist groups.  The same muslim people, in MY country, who do nothing about the murderous thugs running amok in their own mosques and families.

These people can live how they want to live in Morocco or Pakistan, etc.  But when they come to MY country, they ought to be respectful and tolerant of MY country because they are GUESTS here.

I'm sick and tired of people preaching tolerance about muslims, when those muslims are giving me and MY country none of the tolerance they demand for themselves.