Fear Mongering In America Wears Many Hats

Wow. Where to start. I hadn’t seen this list before so I have began some research of my own. I’ve only just started so I will share with you a little of what I have learned so far. Mr. Arif Alikhan was born in the United States to a Pakistani mother and an Indian father thus making him American first and foremost. He is a former professor of Homeland Security and Counterterrorism at NDU, National Defense University in Washington DC. He also served 8 years with the United States Department of Justice as a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles . He served as Senior Counsel under president George W. Bush. From the many sites that I have gone to to better understand the man it appears to me that he has done much work on behalf of America to safeguard our country in numerous ways. His name sounds different than ours and he has been described as Muslim born to Pakistani and Indian parents and as having had supported Muslim-American causes. The only thing that I can find so far that might be scary is that people are judging him based on his religion and what some radical members of said religion have done in this world. I find it scary that misinformed people spread so much fear about something and someone that they probably don’t know anything about. I too have had nasty things said to me and rights stripped from me by radical members of a religious group. Many of those people even using the word ‘devout.’ I’ll tell you now that thus far, not a single one of those people spouting hate speech and pushing their views on to me and my life were Muslim. I’ll let you figure that out on your own. Brad Williams there are people already in this country trying to symbolically make me wear a berka and live under their religious laws and view points. I agree with you, many many “Americans are blind.” Hate and Prejudice and Racism wear many different clothes. This picture was shared by someone I went to high school with and I am not trying to start a comment war. I know the feathers it will ruffle and I can even guess which birds will have theirs ruffled the most. As someone with a degree in journalism and as a compassionate human being and fighter for humanity in a day and age where it seems to be slipping from the thread of our existence these kinds of social media sharing are scaring me more and more.