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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an Iranian American Muslim living in the US for the past 35 years, this is the first time I'm personally feeling hate against all Muslims in general. I definitely didn't feel like this after 9/11. I think it has to do with the fact that 2 potential Presidential candidates are spewing hate against Muslims and the fact that one of them may be president next year. This is terrifying to me. Somehow the way that they are verbalizing this type of hate on national TV day in day out will give it credibility and give the impression that it's OK to be a racist...because hey our leaders are doing it. 
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What are you doing to calm the fears?  Are you denouncing not only the terrorist acts of radical Muslims but also the Muslim teachings they use to motivate and rally their members?[/quote]

How do you calm irrational fears? How can someone be responsible for another person's fears when those fears are disproportionate to any threat?

Instead I wonder why aren't we as a culture raising braver citizens? We are such cowards. [/quote]

It's not that we are cowards. I think we know, deep down, that this is a situation that is more complex and nuanced than we have the tools to understand. We are afraid of our own ignorance and see it as unchanging. We don't know how to get past it, so we lash out against the unknown with fear and hatred and noise and bombs. [/quote]

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