"The [Muslims are]... promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims.
"The [Muslims] hijack planes, or kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants."
This is the response I sent to his forwarded message:
[Mr.______],
If all 1.2 billion Muslims truly did teach all their children to hijack planes and blow themselves up, don't you think that the world would be destroyed by now. That is 4 times the US population. That means that if every Muslim really does want to kill everyone else, there wouldn't be a force big enough to stop it. Why don't you stop sending these emails that don't make any sense? I agree that the Jews deserve more respect than they are given, but so do the Muslims. Al-Qaeda is suspected of having 500-1000 people according to wikipedia. Even if there were 100 times as many, it would be less than 0.0001% of the Muslims in the world! Why do all of the Muslims get labeled as evil, when the ones who want to hurt others are at most less than a millionth of a percent of the worlds population?Please think about what you send before you send it out to everyone.
Thanks,
Barch
2 comments:
Perhaps it helps to believe that it really isn't hate, but simply a lack of intelligence. And I'm talking native, quantifiable, genetically imprinted type - not the (more important?!) kind acquired by being open/curious to ALL that you encounter in life. As (possibly the greatest ever 'spokesperson' for this type of "acquired intelligence") Yogi Berra once opined “You can observe a lot just by watching!"
So the next time I hear some ditto-head start haranguing about "all those (fill in the blank)"...I'm going to try to be less judgmental myself and wonder what I'd be talking about if I hadn't been blessed with more cranial capacity than the "fool I am currently suffering"!
Some of the smartest people I know...have the least to say
You have a very good point HeadStand and I'm extremely grateful for the open mindedness I feel that I have. I know that I still have a lot to learn, which can probably be inferred by the fact that I am not one of those people who "have the least to say." Hopefully someday I can gain that wisdom.
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