Can someone please explain to me–WHY?
Isn’t it bad enough that, for a long while, we’ve been seeing hate crimes against people because they are or are perceived as Muslim? That they’re being killed, attacked, and their places of worship desiccate?
NOW it’s Jewish people. In the first two months of this year–two months!– there have been 90 hate crimes in 30 states against Jews, their centers, their schools, and their cemeteries. 30 is over half our total number of states. What does that say about us as Americans?
According to Pew Research, “There are about 4.2 million American adults who say they are Jewish by religion, representing 1.8% of the U.S. adult population. But there are roughly 5.3 million Jews (2.2% of the adult population) if the total also includes ‘Jews of no religion,’” plus 2.4 million adults who claim a “Jewish background” (raised Jewish but have converted to another religion or no longer “feel” Jewish). Plus another 1.2 million who weren’t raised Jewish but feel they are, in some way, Jewish.
Over 13 million. That’s a lot of fellow Americans. That’s a lot of fellow human beings. Why do we allow it to happen? Why do we turn a blind eye toward our countrymen whose only “crime” is being associated with a religion? When something is as widely accepted and practiced as this is not stopped, it may not be a law but it has the force of law.
Goodbye, First Amendment.
