Someone posted recently that “we Americans” demanded that Muslims in America speak out against violence because “we Americans” were terrified of them here in America.
My response:
Speaking as a Christ-follower, I see “my people” hiding in plain sight and attacking Americans and American soil. I see Dylann Roof and Robert Dear, both people in the Christian religion, killing people. I think it’s outrageous and I think they’re monsters, and I speak out as loudly as I can about these white men who tie Christianity to terror and murder.
It’s completely nonsensical and paranoid to say that because *some* people who are loosely tied to a religious belief are doing evil things, that *all* people of that faith are to be suspected and must jointly speak out.
There are hundreds of examples of Muslims speaking out against evil and terror being done in the name of their religion.
If you don’t hear about it, you should ask why.
As far as your statement of “how do you think us Americans feel?” — do you hear what you just said? These Muslims *are* Americans, just as we Christians are Americans, or we atheists, or we Jews, or we Hindus, or we Buddhists, or we Zoroastrians, or we agnostics…
There is nothing about America that excludes any religion or religious believer from identifying as American.