Vacation time!

  As we do every year at this time (barring terrible money issues), we're off for a week at Cape Cod tomorrow. Don't know how often I'll be checking in. Have fun, all!

*FURY AND RAGE*

I am rarely given to cold fury. I can WRITE about it, but I find anger, in most cases, to be a waste of energy.

However, the following was posted by somone on my FB friendslist:

CAN MUSLIMS BE GOOD AMERICANS?

This is very interesting and we all need to read it from start to finish. And send it on to everyone. Maybe this is why our American Muslims are so quiet and not speaking out about any atrocities.

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I was gobsmacked reading this and especially the concluding paragraphs. This is exactly the kind of thing said about the Japanese back before and during WWII. It is exactly the sort of argument used against the Jews in Germany prior to WWII.

I have just posted that anyone who believes this should unfriend me on Facebook. I mean that to extend to here as well.

These kind of sentiments are antithetical to the essence of America. They are also PERSONALLY offensive to me as they imply that my boss, the man who hired me on nothing more than a single answer to a single question, whose tireless efforts have improved my life and those of his many employees, whose business is BUILT on the most American of industries -- the railroads -- and who does a lot of work for the Department of Defense in multiple areas, that THIS MAN should be watched with suspicion just because he believes in a slightly different version of the One God.

There certainly are bad Muslims. 9/11 proved that.

But stuff like this? This is the kind of thing that makes US into the bad guys, and makes their hatred of us eventually BECOME universal.

If the above quoted material is what you believe, please unfriend me. It'll be easier for everyone.