I dreamed about an ex-lover, a friend to whom I’m about to write email (only partly because of the dream). He’s been, to a greater or lesser extent, in my dreams for something like a week now. I’ve no idea why. All I know is that I awake happy and slightly nostalgic, that I miss him and want him and Ethan to meet.
I told Ethan about this yesterday morning. His eyes reflected the shine in my own. He smiled, the corners of his eyes creasing; he wants to meet J. too. This is important – in some ways, this is it, it’s why I treasure him so. He gets what it means to love, nurtures the depth of feelings I carry for him and for others.
I wake, and before writing email I read blogs. My legs underneath the blanket freeze as I follow links from a post. A sixteen-year-old girl is accused of being terrorist threat and imprisoned – imprisoned! – for being a teenager. For not getting along with her parents, for wanting to get married at 16, for a misunderstanding in the family that involved the police because they trust in the system, a decision which cost their daughter her freedom after the police involved the FBI.
The girl’s Muslim. As the source of my links wrote, “this is the Patriot Act in action. This is religious persecution. This is your America.”
wat do u mean by ..simply—“The girl’s Muslim”
Do you say, “oh okay, that explans it” after you understand that she’s Muslim? Is that your justified reasoning behind what’s happening with her? Just because she’s Muslim? You never really know how to love, unless you love everyone around you. That’s love. Maybe you haven’t realized it just yet, but a simple comment such as that (where no accusations or judgment is present) displays your ignorance of topic. I’m not Muslim. But I have a Doctorate in Theology. Irrelevent, however, when I read issues such as those that involved Muslims, I don’t conclude my opinion or create inferences based on what the mainstream media has fed me about these righteous people, it’s what I have digested information about from their holy book, the Holy Quran. that jusifies my final opinion.— :):):):)
be well
When I said “The girl’s Muslim,” I was referring to our system being willing to blindly forge ahead with this joke of a War On Terror ™ at the sight of a Muslim. We’ve developed this knee-jerk reaction, and it’ll kill us if we don’t kill it first.
And by “we,” sadly, I don’t just mean the current US administration. I mean otherwise pretty nice people, regular people, who have lapped up the propaganda for so long they’ve stopped noticing it.
I agree with you, love is important.