Shame.
I can’t tell you how wrong I think this is and how ashamed it makes me to be an American. And I have spent the better part of my adult life wearing my patriotism proudly. This might be the end of it for me and just when I thought it couldn’t get worse.
When are we going to get the message here in the “land of the free and the home of the brave” that those words are not conditional, no matter what state of war we are in? In fact, they were specifically enshrined in Amendent 1, as in THE FIRST, THE MOST IMPORTANT AMENDMENT protects all Americans from religious prosecution. All of them. Muslims included.)? When will we learn, as Americans and as human beings, that fear and repression will not protect us from another September 11th? It will, I fear, only make us look more like those who we despise (link via Metagrrrl.)