Innocent People
Reader comment on item: Breaking News: Pakistan Reportedly Detains Five D.C.-Area Muslims on Suspicion of Terror

Submitted by Everyday American, Dec 9, 2009 20:07

I do not agree with the above comment. Innocent people cannot and should not be held guilty for the actions of other adults, even their own family members. We are not at war with Muslims who abide by our laws and who wish to live up to American ideals, and there are many such people. Groupthink is unreasonable, unfair, and ultimately unAmerican.

We are at war with people who wish us harm. In the modern world many of these people are Muslim. They interpret their religion strictly, and use the cover of Islam to work out their own inadequacies and personal demons on the rest of the world. It is surely unfortunate that Islam has not gone through an Enlightenment and remains a primitive and unreformed faith. But many Muslims take the good things of their religion and ignore the bad. Many of the rest of us who believe in other religions do the same.

The evil which the Islamists do is real, and must be resisted and vanquished by civilized people for the good of humanity. But, in doing so, we must not lower ourselves to their level.

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