10.12.06 - 12:42 pm

i sort of feel like i should mention that i dont hate muslims. im fascinated by the religion. i want to pick up arabic as a second language.

im just confused over the motives, goals and aspirations of a particular number of muslims in the middle east and africa. and south eastern asia.

i dont hate muslims. i guess i just hate bombs, and the people that detonate them next to civilians.

i relate more with civilians because i am one. i dont want to get blown up. i dont want to be beheaded. i dont want to be kidnapped, tortured, shot and then dropped off in some neighborhood along with some fifty other people. i relate to being an ignorant naive civilian.

i dont relate to a revolutionary. a martyr. i cant relate to someone to the extent of giving my life to rid my counrty of occupiers. i cant relate to holding a knife to someones throat and dragging it across their skin not because of what they have done, but because of what they represent.

my feelings are based on how i relate to the rest of the world. and as of right now, im just not ready to die by someone elses hand, nor by my own.

unless of course, i was posed with the question:

to end all religious wars, poverty and human suffering, would i end my own life?

the answer is a definite and quick "yes".

.....but only if i could request the environment get top priority over all other problems facing the human condition.