Sunday, May 10, 2015

Next Holocaust

  So I know the title sounds very pessimistic and ominous and it was designed to get some attention.  I am not stating that another Holocaust is imminent, but I think that there are some signs that are pointing that way.  I do not think that Jews will be the main target, but I do believe that Jews will get caught up in it.  I believe that Muslims will be the main target. I see the Islamaphobia that is so rampant in the US and even worse in  Europe.  I hear statements like "We need to protect our way of life from them (meaning Muslims)" and it scares the living daylights out of me.  Many of these people are labeled as extremists, but I do not see the greater population standing up and disagreeing with them.  It is the tacit agreement, the silence of the majority, that will allow them to gain greater influence and eventually drive to the next Holocaust.
  Where is the US in this?  We condemn our President as being an "Muslim President", but he is a Muslim President, and a Jewish, and Hindu, and Buddhist, and Pagan, and Christian President.  We need him to stand up and lead on this issue, but the US people don't seem to want to follow.  Do not get my intention wrong.  Militant Islam like any other extremism cannot be tolerated and must be stopped, but it shouldn't be separated from those other extremists in thought and response.
  There have recently been many articles about how US Muslim converts are being recruited to go fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq.  We wonder how this could happen?  I tell you how this can happen, by the US people being silent all that they can hear is the extremists.  If you don't hear both sides of a story, then you believe the only side that you have heard.
  What do we have to do?  Everyday US Citizens need to stand up to this rhetoric.  This does not mean to "give in to Political Correctness."  This means to understand what the US truly means and stand up for that.  The idea that we are all equal no matter what we believe.  That our freedoms are true as long as they do not impede on others freedoms.  This means that what others do you may not like, but they can do them as long as they don't impede on you.  We don't have the thought police and we don't want them.
  I pray that I am wrong about the next Holocaust, but if I am not, I pray that the US will stand up and do the right thing from the outset because if this goes that far with Muslims, the Jews will not be far behind in the hatred and violence.  I make this appeal on both a Humanitarian Level and a personal one.