I can see it in their eyes—THEY'VE ALREADY DIED INSIDE.

So, my mother got some mail today. An email forward from her friend, who we were supposed to meet in Texas this Thanksgiving! Um. Looks like we won't be going to Dallas after all.

It's a long, very politely worded, friendly letter in which the author cheerfully explains his distrust of every Muslim and every Arab in the country, because it is just good sense. After all, the Muslim community hasn't done anything to reassure him! What should you be doing, O Muslim community? Displaying the American flag wherever you go, publicly praying to Allah to defend America, showing him the important bits of the Koran -- which means the parts he actually cares about. Explaining to him how to tell the difference between a terrorist and just a regular Muslim.

I'm not kidding! He says that the Muslim community -- which is evidently a creepy kind of organism, take us to your leaders -- is required to show loyalty in ways that no other minority -- or hell, majority, even -- is expected to. Why? Because Arabs were responsible for 9/11. But that's not racist.

He ends it with this: "But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance and it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand."

Guess what? No ones owes you jack shit. You want to learn about Islam? Just fucking Google it, man.

( The forward~ )