Living In Fear
By princejohn
@princejohn (19)
United States
September 12, 2010 10:05am CST
The recent state of panic over a minister's treat to burn Korans and the frenzy that it generated is symbolic of the massive fear that Al Qaeda is able to generate around the world in general and America in particular. When we stop to consider that burning bibles, people, (men women and children) buildings is routine with Al Qaeda terrorists, it is all the more remarkable that one man threaening to burn a koran could have created such a stir. On the 9th anniversary of 911, we the people of New York and America should ask ourselves, how long will we allow ourselves to be pushed into a corner in our own country to the extent that we would allow them to raise a monument at the very sight where their cowardly and dastardly deeds were done. There is no greater cowardise than to be afraid of a coward!
2 responses
@imnobodyspecial (318)
• United States
8 May 11
A monument? Is that how you see it? Perception is in the individual, your perception most likely differs from others.
Burn a Bible, burn a Quran, kill a man, kill one back...equality being all things, does each act cancel out the other or are both actors in the drama equally guilty of the same crime?
Holding one's self with dignity isn't cowardice. It shows a strength that may bend as the willow but will not break as the oak.
Self respect, as a people and as a country will garner respect from others.
Hatred breeds more hatred, might be something to keep in mind for all of us in the coming days.
@ivo_shkafov (399)
• Bulgaria
12 Sep 10
I have lived in fear,It's awful,so I taught myself to be brave,and now I might say I'm okay :)
