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opinion:
our view
Unsure who to
blame
The world has increasingly
become more and more polarized by pointing out each others differences
instead of concentrating what makes us the same. In the wake
of Tuesday's tragedy this is an important thing to keep in mind.
The problems when
terrorist acts like these occur is that instead of blaming
or growing contempt for the extreme people who carried out
the attack, our first reaction is to hate the entire country
where those extremists are from.
Looking back in
time to World War II where paranoia and hatred caused America
to place Japanese Americans in internment camps, we committed
a mistake that has only recently been monetaril0y rectified
can prove this phenomenon.
Whether it is the
Palestinians or extremist groups from Afghanistan or whatever
other country, it is important to keep in mind that a few
nuts do not make up an entire country.
There are innocent
people all over the world who have had to deal with similar
tragedies in their countries, sadly more often than we do
here in the United States. Likewise, there are many citizens
of these countries who do not share these extremists viewpoints
and are similarly trapped in their own homeland much the way
many people felt here on Tuesday.
The struggles that
people deal with throughout the world are the reality of their
surroundings. Their discontent with the United States is the
result of poor decisions by our government in funding revolutions
and giving people like Osama bin Laden the power to cause
so much destruction.
No, we are not
to blame for our own suffering and neither are the innocent
citizens of the country responsible for these terrorist attacks.
Our hope is that
the United States is very thorough in finding the people or
group responsible for this bombing instead of vilifying an
entire country and its civilians.
With all of our
problems here in this country, we should also keep in mind
that we should try to close the gap between races and try
not only to understand other peoples racial origins, but the
customs and practices of their country as well.
The people responsible
for the terrorist acts Tuesday are not representative of their
homelands or their Islamic beliefs. We should not make anybody
feel like they are hated in the United States, including any
Islamic people or anyone from the country that is found responsible
for the attack.
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