Feeling angered....

[Acie]

I am finding myself getting more angry with each passing day. It seems that almost every time I listen to the news, which is not often, I hear of "Americans" attacking our Arabic brothers and sisters that reside here in America. Brothers and sisters that may have been born here or those who have lived here for several generations are being shot at, run down, cursed at, and their properties are being destroyed by these so called "Americans" who feel it necessary to punish everyone of Indian descent. Do they not see that they themselves are behaving as the terrorist behaved? I realize that the individuals who are doing these things may be few in numbers but even those few are too many.... I don't wish to keep rambling on about this, but it angers me to no end! I just hope I got my point across without confusing everyone. Sorry about the length of this.
Love to all......

[talamh]

Well, when i heard about this i gathered some flowers in the garden and took them to the very small local mosque and left they there with a signed note wishing peace to them and peace to the world. There was no one there at the time , so i left the flowers by the front door.

It's a very small thing, i know... but it was all i could do in the short term.... and it felt a lot better to do that then to feel frustrated and angry.

Maybe you could write a letter to the local Muslum Association where you are.... or write a reasoned letter to the local paper condemning the acts of violence.. all acts of violence.... Maybe phone the local mosque (if there is one) and ask if you can come and pray with them as an act of solidarity... maybe make new friends and go to a peace vigil together... create light in the darkness... every little bit counts.... always bb talamh

[Spirahl]

That was a wonderful gesture Talamh! :hearteyes
I know the media here in Canada has been very careful with this issue. They keep showing prayer vigils at mosques to show clearly that it was a fringe group that is suspected in this tragedy, and most of Islam wants peace.

[Wiccan Maeve]

This angers me too. I can't understand what these hypocrits are thinking.

Love & light,
HoneyDreads

[Hope]

Please remember that many people are moving to anger and it is important to think before you respond are they angery with (insert whatever the issue is) or are they in the anger of grief.

Blessings to all of us
hope

[Swanspirit]

do not know how to separate their feelings from their actions........ and this does not excuse it ; there is no "excuse"but does explain it somewhat .......
Many of us will feel extreme anger and rage ...... and the more we acknowledge it...... the better...... AND the less likely we will act on it ,,, having expressed it in some other way ....
SAYING I feel like doing such and so doesnt equate with doing what ever we are thinking.
The real danger lies in stuffing those feelings until they explode in angry actions out of control or actions based on blind rage.....and theu causing someone innocent any harm.
I have had people tell me .....how to think what to feel ..... etc etc ...... even how to pray (some nitwit response to my emailed thought offering )Everyone processes their own feelings at their own speed and in their own time ...... and those feelings dont march down the list with precision they come in waves and currents ..and tides........
and things sometimes trigger sleeping feelings......
I understand how someone could come to harm someone innocent out of anger at innocents being harmed.....but at the same time I abhor it.
I realise they CONFUSE them with the perpetrators....or see them as some symbol ..... and are striking out in helplessness......
but it doesnt help........
It only makes things worse.....
Love and light
Swannie

[Wyrdsister]

I've been disgusted and so so saddened by these reports. :wah: This is not only going on in the States but in Canada as well. Anyone with mid-toned skin and different dress is being targetted.

I'm going to be putting a few signs in my car windows, something along the lines of the ones found here: http://reclaimthestreetsnyc.tao.ca/posters/ I want people to stop and think for two seconds -- "do you REALLY think that person wearing a turban or a scarf bombed your country a few days ago?" "Do you REALLY think that everyone who looks like an arab is a close, personal follower of Osama bin Laden or some other terrorist?"

Makes me sick that people have been soooooo quick to attack others when it is just the same kind of racist and religious hatred that CAUSED this horrific attack!! (i.e. hatred of "Americans" as a whole) STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!!!!!

Okay, end of rant. Time for this saddened wiccan to get herself some peaceful sleep.

Wyrdsister
stressing

[Tigerwallah]

There have been many cases of bomb scares in NYC, and all over the world. One man was arrested for making one against a NY school in the wake of the terrorist attacks. People have also been leaving false information as to the survival and location of some of the people who are missing in the WTC. I saw Dr. Joyce Brothers on MSNBC talking about this to Solidad O'Brien. She said that some people are just borderline psychotic and events like these set them off.

It's very sad.