{"id":12029,"date":"2015-12-15T20:18:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12029"},"modified":"2015-12-15T20:18:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T20:18:54","slug":"american-muslims-need-to-stand-up-for-their-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12029","title":{"rendered":"American Muslims need to stand up for their nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\"Sharjeel<\/a><\/p>\n

I keep waiting to hear it.<\/p>\n

The chants of “USA, USA, USA!”<\/p>\n

Those chants need not\u00a0come from large crowds at football games, necessarily. Instead, I am waiting to hear those chants coming from American Muslims who are standing up for their country.<\/p>\n

I get that Muslims are upset at mosques being defaced. I have great sympathy for those who feel the pain of discrimination because of their faith. I share their angst at calls to ban all Muslims from entering the United States. I also share their disgust with presidential candidates saying that Muslims shouldn’t run for — let alone serve<\/em> as — president of the United States.<\/p>\n

However, there’s an element missing from the outrage that Muslims have been expressing in regard to the violence that’s erupting all around the world — including here in the United States.<\/p>\n

President Bush said we are not at war with Islam. President Obama has reiterated it. We’re at war with extremists who have perverted a great religion. The extremists are killing more Muslims than any other religious group in the world.<\/p>\n

They also are attacking nations, including this<\/em> one.<\/p>\n

I want to hear American Muslims shouting out\u00a0their love of country<\/em> as loudly as they do for their faith.<\/p>\n

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I keep waiting to hear it. The chants of “USA, USA, USA!” Those chants need not\u00a0come from large crowds at football games, necessarily. Instead, I am waiting to hear those chants coming from American Muslims who are standing up for their country. I get that Muslims are upset at mosques being defaced. I have great … Continue reading American Muslims need to stand up for their nation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,1899,2349,5493],"class_list":["post-12029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-george-w-bush","tag-islam","tag-muslim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12031,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12029\/revisions\/12031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}