If you build a tower with blocks and decide to remove the bottom one the tower will collapse. This is the future of the United States right now. The United States of America has always been a land of tolerance. Even when America was just a bunch of colonies people moved here to get away from the segregation of their home lands. Religious tolerance is one of the building blocks of America. A block that we are trying to take away. Religious intolerance is becoming a major problem in the United States and even in Oklahoma. If we keep on this track we will lose all that America stands for. Religious intolerance is bad for Oklahoma because it harms people in the community both physically and emotionally. A key step in ending religious intolerance
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Freedom of speech is a constitutional right, but so is the freedom of religion. Our history is filled with people moving to America because of religious intolerance such as the pilgrims. We are a nation of tolerance. Religious intolerance might be legal but it is in no way right. Christine Weick, Lorene Spoden, the Edmond woman and others all suffer from something discussed earlier. They all suffer from a lack of understanding and ignorance. Lorene Spoden claimed that the muslim talk of peace was a bunch of “propaganda” yet anyone knowledgeable in the faith would know Islam preaches nothing but peace. One protester led by Christine Wieck told reporters that “They’re trying to pretend to be good until it’s time to be evil. They’re just infiltrating the system”(Shanahan). Both the statement by the protester and Lorene Spoden could be invalidated by a single verse from the Quran. The Holy Quran states in 5:32 that” if a man kills another purposely it will be as if he had killed all human kind and if a man saves another’s life it will be as if he has saved all humankind”(Picthall). These words from the holy book are proof enough that Islam is a religion of peace. It also proves that intolerance is
Freedom of speech is a constitutional right, but so is the freedom of religion. Our history is filled with people moving to America because of religious intolerance such as the pilgrims. We are a nation of tolerance. Religious intolerance might be legal but it is in no way right. Christine Weick, Lorene Spoden, the Edmond woman and others all suffer from something discussed earlier. They all suffer from a lack of understanding and ignorance. Lorene Spoden claimed that the muslim talk of peace was a bunch of “propaganda” yet anyone knowledgeable in the faith would know Islam preaches nothing but peace. One protester led by Christine Wieck told reporters that “They’re trying to pretend to be good until it’s time to be evil. They’re just infiltrating the system”(Shanahan). Both the statement by the protester and Lorene Spoden could be invalidated by a single verse from the Quran. The Holy Quran states in 5:32 that” if a man kills another purposely it will be as if he had killed all human kind and if a man saves another’s life it will be as if he has saved all humankind”(Picthall). These words from the holy book are proof enough that Islam is a religion of peace. It also proves that intolerance is