Eid Mubarak

Tomorrow is Eid. Another month of another year of my life, finished. Hopefully I am a better person for it. I feel better. I feel cleansed. I feel rejuvenated. And I feel blessed that in my time of need, I received so many sweet comments, emails, texts and calls. Thank you, thank you, thank you. The situation I last posted about is still not over, but God tells us that with every hardship comes relief. And I actually feel better, even though nothing is yet resolved. I am OK. This is major for me. With all the uncertainty, I am OK.

But what I am not OK with is that I have to be scared to go pray in the morning. Why? Because of things like this:

On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West -- the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers and through the U.S. mail -- were distributed by mail in Ohio, a "chemical irritant" was sprayed through a window of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, where 300 people were gathered for a Ramadan prayer service. The room that the chemical was sprayed into was the room where babies and children were being kept while their mothers were engaged in prayers. This, apparently, is what the scare tactic political campaigning of John McCain's supporters has led to -- Americans perpetrating a terrorist attack against innocent children on American soil.

And so tomorrow, I shall thank God for the blessings in my life and I shall pray for many things. And among those prayers, I will ask that the hate stop.

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