Saturday, November 14, 2015

War on Christmas and Muslim Terrorists

The "War on Christmas" is not even about religion.   It's about economics.  Retailers woke up to the reality that other religions exist and decided not to lose business by ignoring those people. For decades, maybe centuries even, the only places that even acknowledged Jewish holidays were those with a large Jewish population. Any faith not of the Judeo-Christian tradition was ignored completely. The use of "Happy Holidays" and non-specific decor is not meant to exclude anyone, but to stop that very thing.

And on another note, there are 1.57 billion Muslims in the world. To assume every one of them is a terrorist is stupid.  If they were all terrorists, anyone who is not Muslim would be dead a long time ago.  Yes, we hear a lot about the Taliban and Al Queda and ISIS.  We also hear a lot about the Westboro Baptist Church and the KKK.  We don't hear about the vast majority of any religious group because they are boring. They go to work and mind their business.

How about we all just stop focusing on the differences?  Most of us just want to wake up in the morning and get back to bed that night without tragedy happening in the interim.  We want to worship as we see fit, and we are willing to let others do the same.  We want to feel Whatever-Mart is not ashamed we shop there.

There is no war on Christmas.  Muslim is not a synonym for terrorist.