http://fyrfli.net/how-easily-we-blame-the-unknown ... a warm, flickering glow of hope and light ... Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:47:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://fyrfli.net/how-easily-we-blame-the-unknown/comment-page-1#comment-337 Everton P. Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:41:37 +0000 http://blog.fyrfli.net/?p=893#comment-337 <p>I also gasped when I read his name, because I knew that his religion would become the reason for his actions in many people's minds. Even though he may have committed the act partially because of how he saw his religion in his own head, there are many Muslims who repudiate what he did, and there thousands of Muslims who are serving and have served "with distinction and honor" in the US armed forces. People who want to blame the Islamic faith simply choose to ignore this fact.</p> I also gasped when I read his name, because I knew that his religion would become the reason for his actions in many people's minds. Even though he may have committed the act partially because of how he saw his religion in his own head, there are many Muslims who repudiate what he did, and there thousands of Muslims who are serving and have served “with distinction and honor” in the US armed forces. People who want to blame the Islamic faith simply choose to ignore this fact.

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