Amid the justified celebrations over the killing of Osama bin Laden, at first glance it might seem we are no better than the al Qaeda group celebrating over the deaths of thousands of "infidels". But therein liess the difference.....The so-called "infidels" became victims through someone's interpretation of the Koran. Someone decided that these different people of the West (for one) were not innocent people going about their lives according to their own beliefs, but rather were infidels who were to be killed according to the Koran. The result was the war on terror -- the deaths of thousands of innocent Americans.
I thank God that I live in the United States where freedom of religion is a way of life. TOLERANCE is apparently an unknown virtue to the members of al Qaeda.
I thank God for George Bush, President Obama, the intelligence community and the Navy Seals for protecting this country and the rest of the world and removing this one sociopath from our midst.
And I am proud to be an American .... even though the "task" may seem distasteful, he was washed, wrapped in linen and buried within the time period to comply with Islamic law. How many of his victims were given that respect? That is the difference in what America stands for and the chaos of the Middle East.
MICELLO'S MUSINGS is the blog of a woman touched by the "gift" of bipolar disorder. Her random thoughts on how mental illness affects her life. That's right...I am affected by it but it does not define me. Constant challenges of the disorder make it difficult to find and keep the real "me.
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