Setting The Record Straight

This post will not be about my mom, who happens to be quite a resilient fighter. It is about phonies who really piss me off.

There is a small-minded, bigoted, moronic blogger out there who has posted several comments to my blog, wishing comfort to my mother. He has sent repeated e-mails of good wishes and even offered to attend the funeral when that time comes. And I was really touched. Someone who has never met me displaying such kindness is a wonderful example of what is possible in this world.

Boy was I wrong.

Although I float somewhere between atheist and agnostic and abhor religious institutions, my family is Muslim. If you want to intelligently discuss things you find troubling in the Quran, I'll probably agree with you. Rest assured - I have been called an infidel by whackjob Muslims more times than you ever have. If you think there are Muslims out there running amok, you will not hear any disagreement from me. But, if you condemn all 1.2 billion Muslims or Islam as a whole based upon what some of them do, then you cross the line with me. Not because I am an apologist for Islam or Muslims. I am not. It is because your insults and condemnations apply to my mother who is currently fighting for her life, those insults apply to my family who I love dearly and your ignorance envelopes many of my family's friends who have provided an endless fountain of kindness, support and love during these difficult times.

The offending blogger has been wishing good thoughts to my family while writing on his blog that Islam is evil, violent and suggesting that no other religion in the world has people who do bad things. Hypocrite! If you think my mom, a moderately religious Muslim woman, is an evil, violent savage, save your insincere, phony good wishes. You aren't doing us any favors. Every person of color has had the experience where someone says to them, I think all X are violent savages, but you aren't like those ones. Don't do me any favors. You don't know what makes up the majority of Muslims, you have no idea what efforts are afoot in the community to improve the state of affairs and, like Hitler who you surely admire, you make no distinction between those who are secular and those who are fanatics. What is even more hypocritical is that the same mainstream media this moron constantly insults is the source of his expertise on Islam, its adherents and the adherents of all other religions in the world.

I could care less if someone likes Islam. It makes no difference to me if someone dislikes Muslims. I won't try to convince you otherwise and there are plenty of other blogs where you will find reassurances of your ignorant beliefs. Bigots like being bigots. They are pathetic, insecure human beings who can only feel a sense of value by insulting others. Facts make no difference in their world. To those people, you are not welcome here. At a time when I am under an incredible amount of stress, the last thing I will tolerate is your petty, small-minded, small-penised insults about a group of people whom you have never met and do not otherwise know. Go get some prozac and a dildo and fuck yourself!



P.S. One more thing, you don't have shit to say about violent religions if you believe in the Old Testament you rotten hypocrite.