Miah's Opinion

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69 Days!
Rosh Hashanah has been a good one; except for well... the family drama (which I don't want to discuss...) then there is the political drama that has been taking the world by storm as well as my diner table. So I thought I would share my opinion on the matter of Muslim community center opening a mere 2 blocks from ground zero (for those of you who are unaware that's where the Twin Towers once stood.) Warning this is very opinionated so... yeah...
September 11th 2001 will forever be in my mind as a day of importance, sadness, confusion, anger, depression, nightmare, community, and of course fear. For our readers it may have been mentioned before, but I used to live in New York City, I moved there in July 2000 and moved back 6 weeks before 9/11. The last thing I did in Manhattan (New York City is broken up into bureaus, I lived in Queens, Manhattan is what most people associate with New York City) was walk along the Hudson River and watch the sunset with my family and our family-friends I was 9 1/2 years old then. I distinctly remember looking at the towers both glistening in a beautiful orange, because I've always loved sunset buildings and to this day those were the prettiest I have ever seen. We made our way over to the towers to get on the subway and head back to our packed up home. On our way over we saw a woman working on a ceramic cow, as it was apart of the art show that was in the city that summer and the previous. She was painting it in bills, green American bills. My friend being the same age as me asked her why she was painting the cow this way. She said to look at those two buildings, a lot of business men and women come in and out of them and so does a lot of money... there was more to explanation but I was 9 1/2 and very imaginative so I paid no attention to her after that moment. Anyway we walked over to the towers got in one of them and made our way down to the escalator to the subway. I made sure though to look up the building, the beautiful white interior still in my mind.
So, I have a connection to New York, and the Twin Towers just like any other New Yorker would, granted I wasn't there that horrific day, but I feel the connection. Now this brings me to the point I want to make. I think that NO ONE has the right to tell people where they can and cannot set up their community center, especially if it's based of the practice of religion, race, sex, etc. There is no reason in the world that a community is allowed to bully people based off of anything, ever! It especially bothers me because people are basing it off the stupidest reason, the reason you ask? "This is a Muslim center, and Muslims were behind the terrorist attacks that day, so it's insensitive to have the center so close." Well firstly my personal biggest point is that the attackers were well I personal would say Evil men and women who hid behind Islam and their religion. They were total cowards using something that is other wise a peaceful religion to do something so awful. Second this is racism, flat out racist! I will not be surprised if there's going to be another Martin Luther King Jr., or something as extreme as another Holocaust. Because I hate to break it to the Americans that stand behind the idiocy, but before the Holocaust business were shut down for the sole reason that the owner was Jewish. How long and how many times America (and the rest of the World) do you have to realize that any and all discrimination is discrimination, I mean Historically (I'm not historian so I may be missing things) the world has gotten over the idea of Women, Jews, Natives (well sort of), Blacks, immigrants, so why are we still struggling with Muslim and Gay? The world needs to focus on more important things like starvation, lack of water, HIV/AIDS, cancer, Terror Warnings, not whether or not it's insensitive to build a community center. Not to mention a community center that also plans to have an educational atmosphere for those who are confused by Muslims and Muslim Extremist. To sum it all up, listen, learn, love.
So that was my rant. It's been building up over the past couple days, I also just realized that it's September 10th (for some reason that didn't click before this... even though I've been hearing about the Idiot who wants to burn the Koran.)
On a lighter note, for our readers Evie came over today and we spent 4-and-a-half-hours Skyping/ iChating with 5 people, two of them being Rae and Lee. It was actually loads of fun even though people were literally kilometers away. On a lighter note, so glad to have started something on this channel! (HA!!!!!!) I mean blog. So my question actually stems from the afternoon, it's a two parter: What is your favourite colour of nail polish and if you were to create your own of that colour what would you name it? (Example if I were to say dark blue I would name it night sky blue... but that's not my answer just an example.)
Ok. That’s it. Sorry if this made you uncomfortable, I just needed to rant because my opinion over the past couple of days wasn't allowed... yeah...
Miss ya'll
Miah
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P.P.S Here's a link to the New York Times about it http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/p/park51/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=ground%20zero%20mosque&st=cse