Ultima-Kill3rz wrote:
Aside from the European world wars and bloody genocides, the days that were important to me was how my country went from a colony to an independent country, and of course the 9/11 attacks, which apparently started a feeling of hatred towards Muslims regardless of whether one is good or bad.
The is a general form of animosity between all people. This is brought on by the desire to maintain one's self. That being said, every religion has at one time been hated for one reason or another by some group of people. Similarly all religions have been associated, or attributed with mass genocide (mass here is slightly ambiguous as the term is relative). Example, many Muslims hate Hindus (and Kashmir is still fought over after hundreds of years just look at Pakistan and India today).
Ideally it is best if we treat all people based on the merits of there deeds. Promoting or discriminating based on qualities other than merit just causes prejudices. I have arab-american friends who are Christians they often receive the same treatment as many arab-americans who are Muslim or agnostic.
With all that being said it is important to note that a nation or group of people have the right to defend themselves and their property. There were no white hijackers on the on 9/11. However, that fact does not make all arab-americans terrorists. The conundrum is that it is extremely inefficient to search 90 year old white haired grandmas at an airport (the TSA thing is ridiculous it is doing nothing to protect our country as an intelligent terrorist can make a bomb out of almost anything). It is not hateful to protect one's self even if it means you have to profile groups as more dangerous than others. You can't just deny facts in order to be nice and you can't just let political correctness kill you.
Conclusion: America has had very loose immigration policies. If we wish to protect ourselves in this day and age that has to change. Further, it is quite allowable to keep track of potential threats in the country this is quite possible without labeling all arab-americans as "potential threats". On the subject of hate, I think your argument isn't founded. I don't hate arabs, but I am not going to bend over for political correctness and allow needless deaths that can be prevented. Tact and guts are friends in situations like this, and it seems that our congress has neither when it comes to protecting the people they serve.
On the subject, there are many events that are forgotten in history. The fact that Roosevelt signed five neutrality acts in the interest of money. Or the Emancipation Proclamation. Any ancient events like Stalin's slaughter of his own people and the ethnic struggles across the world overtime (there are too many to list) are all forgotten in our global history deprived world.
Stalin is way worse than Hitler, he just happened to keep it in his own country to no one cared that he killed tens of millions of his own people in the Siberian Death camps.
And yes the Germans performed horrific experiments on live humans including trying to turn men into women and visa versa (hint:genetics weren't discovered till 1953 so they weren't doing it genetically).
The key to history is that it oscillates and what is good and bad is always shady as there are always strings attached to all deeds. The key to knowing what is morally right and wrong is often the rule that has stuck for thousands of years. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. If you wouldn't like it to happen to you, then don't support it and don't let it happen. Many Germans during WW2 knew what was going on with the Holocaust and never lifted a finger...now how would you have felt if you were Jewish?
