Spreading Hatred of Islam is Wrong

There are many people who spread hatred of the Islamic people. They judge all Islamic people by the teachings of the Islamic religion and by the actions of the terrorists. In effect, they state that all Islamic people are terrorists. My impression from reading their blogs and articles is that they hate all Islamic people and/or are spreading hatred of all Islamic people. Either way, my response remains the same.

Do they hate every person of the Islamic faith? Do they hate every hard working man of the Islamic faith who has not created any trouble and has no criminal record? Do they hate every woman of the Islamic faith who follows the rules of her religion and hence her culture. Do they hate every child of the Islamic faith? If they do, then they hate the majority of Islamic people who have done nothing to hurt them or any US soldier. Do they hate the Islamic people who helped our brave soldiers drive the terrorists out of many areas of Iraq?

If every human being of the Islamic faith fervently believed that the destiny of the Islamic people is to kill all people of other faiths, then all our soldiers in every foreign nation would be dead. And so would most of the people in the US. Why? Because the Islamic faith is followed by the largest number of people in the world. There were one billion three hundred eighty seven million four hundred fifty four thousand five hundred Islamic people in the world in 2007. And that number has increased. Let me repeat that. 1,387,454,500 Islamic people!

There is a gray area between hatred and bigotry. In my opinion, many of them have crossed that gray area. The people who hate Islamic people judge every person (man, women, child, infant, unborn baby, etc) of the Islamic faith by the relatively few active Islamic terrorists.

The people who hate Islamic people have allowed their fears to drive them into the darkness of hatred. They're trying to fight fire by exposing it to gasoline fumes. Haven't they learned that people of the Islamic religion do not necessarily believe everything that is written or said?

The people who hate Islamic people cannot win the war on terror by hating, spreading hatred or disrespecting the Islamic religion. But they can destroy the precious principles our founders handed down to us in the US Constitution. I think they hate the Islamic people out of a fear that we all share. That's their choice. My choice is to uphold the principles of our forefathers and respect people of all religions including the peaceful Islamic people.

I cannot change the people who hate Islamic people. But I can warn them. Hate grows like a cancer of the heart. Those hate filled people should be careful that their hatred of Islamic people does not destroy them (the hate filled people!)