Sunday, December 9, 2012

GIVE ME A REASON NOT TO BE A MUSLIM; I'LL GIVE YOU A REASON WHY I AM

This past week my home was broken into. It took a moment to come to the actualization that this had really happened.
 
The side door had been kicked down, papers had been knocked to the floor, and the 47 inch flat screen television had been taken from it's resting place.

My eyes scanned the room. I felt numb, empty, and confused. It seemed as though everything was moving in slow motion. Perhaps, I was in a bad dream that would end in a few moments.

Someone had violated my families home. The place where we were to feel safe from the outside evilness of the world. This is the place where we loved, played, laugh, argued, rested, and felt secure.

My husband and my son scrambled around outside, trying to see a car, a stranger, a clue.

The man across the street that I had prepared meals for, when he was ill, anxiously told my husband how he'd seen 3 males in the yard. He even went on to describe the males in detail. The only thing I wanted to know, is why is it that this neighbor didn't yell out or call the police. I would have. Many times he'd left his home, strangers would enter his yard , and I would yell, "Hello" or ask were they looking for the man who lived there.

The home diagonally to our home had people sitting on the porch. The people would have had a direct view of that side door. Only one person spoke up to describe one of the perpetrators.

Didn't one of these neighbors see a person or persons carrying a LARGE television from our home and found it to be rather suspicious?

I was more concerned by the non-active behavior of these neighbors than about the stolen television.
 
Why didn't the television matter to me?  Because I barely watched it any way, and it was only a material possession.

What hurt is that I have tried so hard to be a good neighbor to these Bible Belt, Church going Christians.

Wow, If this is the way the Christians love their neighbors, and practice what they preach, I have a great reason for being a Muslim. At least we treat one another as brothers and sisters, and we,also, tend to be each other's keepers. 
 

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