Assignment 5: Race in America

     The world that we live in now deals with many different forms of racism, but its all the same. Everyday living we have to deal with the fear of being judged. I think that racism is a very wrong thing to do because not everyone is the same, or going to  be the same. The controversy, that is happening right now in New York City, is the kind of racism that we live in today. When I heard that there was going to be a Mosque in New York right around ground zero, my first thoughts were why? I didn't understand why there had to be a Mosque at ground zero, and why it was such a big deal.

     At first I thought that the government and they other citizens that had such a big deal with a Mosque being built at ground zero, I thought that the citizens who were making it a big deal was taking it all out of proportion. I think that the Islamic people who are building this Mosque, do have the right to practice their own religion, but I also think that they shouldn't have built it next to ground zero. Like, the man who lives in Florida, Terry Jones, he is making a bigger deal then it needs to be. Everyone has the right to practice their own religion, but it isn't right to push your religion in someone else. Evey one can believe what they would like to believe but burning the bibles of another religion, is wrong.

     Terry Jones is a pastor who lives in  Florida, and he is wanting to burn the Quran. Which is the bible of their own religion. Mr. Jones wanted to burn the books because he didn't believe in the religion, the Islamic people believed. He also thought that, with them building a Mosque at ground zero, he believed that burning the books would solve the problem. He is very much wrong because no one, with as much power as they might have, they will NEVER eliminate the amount of people who are believing in a different religion, from what they believe.

     In this situation, I think that no one is right. I believe this because, Mr. Terry Jones is doing wrong for burning the books, just because he doesn't believe. The Islamic Mosque that is being built next to ground zero, is wrong to. I think that the ones who are in charge of building a Mosque don't have a right to build it next to ground zero. They say that they are doing it for good and just because the people who caused the issues on 9/11, are of the same religion doesn't mean that they are wanting to do wrong. I believe that the Mosque could  have been built somewhere else, and they could have had enough respect for our troops, and they loved ones who were caught in 9/11 to have been built somewhere else.

    The situation ans conflict that is going on with the people who are building the Mosque and the man who wants to burn their bibles, are both in the wrong but both right. The man who is wanting to burn the bibles is wrong because he should not try and push his own beliefs on someone else, but he is also right because he is standing up for his beliefs. The people who are building the Mosque at ground zero are in the wrong because they should have enough respect for us to build it somewhere else, but are right because they understand they have the right to believe what they want.