The world is filled with kind, peaceful, struggling-with-life-just-like-everyone Muslim people. From the bottom of my heart, I wish them Ramadan Mubarak and Ramadan Kareem. The month of Ramadan is much better understood in my country, the United States of America, than it has ever been before but still - the mistrust, misunderstanding, fear, and hatred towards everyday Muslims and Islam continues. The currently appointed Secretary of State has broken with tradition and turned down an offer to host a Eid-al-Fatr breaking of the fast in late June. Here in the state we currently live in - a white supremacist spewed a hate-filled rant at two teenage girls because one of them was wearing a hijab on a Portland Train - and when several bystanders attempted to get him to simmer down and defended the young women - he killed two of them with a knife - this was on Friday, the first day of the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan...an awful thing at any time - and yet, a hopeful thing as strangers stood up to defend the rights of strangers. One can hope that their deaths do not push others to remain quiet while such things happen in the future - which they surely will.
Ramadan Mubarak & Ramadan Kareem & Random Musings
Ramadan Mubarak & Ramadan Kareem & Random…
Ramadan Mubarak & Ramadan Kareem & Random Musings
The world is filled with kind, peaceful, struggling-with-life-just-like-everyone Muslim people. From the bottom of my heart, I wish them Ramadan Mubarak and Ramadan Kareem. The month of Ramadan is much better understood in my country, the United States of America, than it has ever been before but still - the mistrust, misunderstanding, fear, and hatred towards everyday Muslims and Islam continues. The currently appointed Secretary of State has broken with tradition and turned down an offer to host a Eid-al-Fatr breaking of the fast in late June. Here in the state we currently live in - a white supremacist spewed a hate-filled rant at two teenage girls because one of them was wearing a hijab on a Portland Train - and when several bystanders attempted to get him to simmer down and defended the young women - he killed two of them with a knife - this was on Friday, the first day of the Islamic Holy month of Ramadan...an awful thing at any time - and yet, a hopeful thing as strangers stood up to defend the rights of strangers. One can hope that their deaths do not push others to remain quiet while such things happen in the future - which they surely will.