Anti-Muslim Sentiment

For this post I chose an article that demonstrated the consequences of Americans' perverted image of Muslims and Arabs.  This is obviously directly tied into the reading we had to do for today and also into the documentary we viewed in class.  The article covers the storm of controversy brought on by the mosque that was proposed to be built near Ground Zero.  Naturally, most people were outraged at this, including myself at first.  It seemed to spit in the face of the thousands of Americans who died that day and have continued to die overseas.  Over time I realized this truly was unfair to the local and greater Muslim community, it's the Muslim Extremists/Fundamentalists that committed the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and they compose a vast minority of the global Muslim population.  It seems most people who were extremely reactive towards the proposed mosque allowed anger and pain to blind them to the fact that religious intolerance was the sole cause of the terrorism we endured and by no means could solve our problems.  To use a quote from the article one individual said, "I do have a problem with having a mosque on top of the site where [terrorists] can gloat about what they did."  Granted, the person who said this is the parent of a firefighter who died at Ground Zero the day of the attacks so their anti-Muslim sentiment is understandable.  But just because it's understandable does not make it justified and that's why we have a long way to go before we can repair the Islamic faith's image in the eyes of America as a whole.