Love > Fear

So, there is a video circulating on facebook (for the second time now) of a supposed U.S. Marine stationed in the Middle East. He speaks in favor of Trump's Muslim ban, based on what he purports to have experienced. What troubles me about this video is that he is painting all Muslims and Middle Easterners with the same brush, based on interactions he claims to have had with those who live in the country where he is stationed. Yep, he proclaims that we should ban all Muslims/Middle Easterners because of one or two conversations he's had with some men in the nearby village. This is unfortunate. 

Would it be fair to view all Christians through the lens of the Crusades or the Inquisition or the Witch Hunts or the Catholic Church protecting pedophiles or the Christian white supremacists in the U.S. who've committed violence via stabbings, bombings, and mass shootings? No. I am quite confident that Christians would be immensely offended and cry foul and scream about yet more oppression against them if they were all painted with the same brush as those who committed abhorrent acts in the name of "Christianity".

I do not and will not subscribe to painting everyone with the same brush based on the actions of a few. Such thinking is solely based on fear. We humans are better than that.