As said in my colleague's blog, I agree that we should protect and honor the First Amendment right for every American citizen. People should not be condemned because of their religion. Just because they have a different belief system is no means to regard them as subordinates. People have always judged groups based on the extremists of those groups, when in reality the majority of the people are well mannered and civil. As we see almost on a weekly bases, Muslims are severely under attack by anti-Muslim propaganda, blaming all those who follow the religion for September 11, 2001. We have seen anti-Muslim practices increased over the last few years from inappropriate slurs, to the preacher that burned to Koran publicly. this public indecency has not only not been told to quit, but rather enforced by favoring those people who speak ill about the Islamic religion. As my colleague states, "we have settled on a scapegoat." Americans are blaming Muslims for many of our country's issues, when in reality, the elites who are doing the name-calling, are the ones to blame. Our diversity is even growing, the census has proved that we are becoming more diverse in different ways. We should honor this standing achievement because in most countries, those minorities would be prosecuted just for being different. How can we call ourselves Americans when we are doing the exact same thing? How is it that America prides its self on being the country of immigrants when we do not accept them for equals?
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