I am so pissed off exploding angry right now and since the topic of this forum includes the word discrimination I need to vent. I have just been accused of ignoring 9/11. My cousin posted a picture on Facebook of the towers on fire and smoke billowing across NYC. She said in that post that I am ignoring it completely. For the record. I have never ignored it and it's on my mind on a regular basis. I could go on about the ways and times it's been burned indelibly into my mind but at this point it's not relevant anyhow. My cousin posted only one other name on this picture, someone I had no idea who was. There was no discussion going on that I'm aware of that pertained to 9/11 either by her or me. So it was quite out of the blue that she posted this to begin with. Needless to say I was really shocked by this and told her this right away and that I would like to know the reason why she did this. Almost immediately her brother, another cousin of mine, posted assorted banters about muslims and jihads and invading the USA and how wrong I was when I said anything about Arabs invading America. I posted I've made no issues about this to begin with and all I want to know is why the other cousin decided to defile my name on her 9/11 post. Then several other of her friends started posting against me as well, for the most part indicating things very favorably on the second cousins anti islamic jihadist bs. And then one of my aunts posted about it too! She has let me know she is very anti muslim a long time ago but ignored it beyond that fact. Up until this point she was my favorite aunt by far. And then yet another cousin started in with her own anti islam posts to fit right in with the rest of them. And I was just stuck there speechless, angry as hell, losing my mind about this. I couldn't imagine what brought this whole fiasco about to begin with. So I started thinking and something became frighteningly obvious to me. The man that is closest to me as we can get without physically being together (yes we live in another state, long distance relationship) is originally from Jordan. Yes he is muslim. My aunt knew this, I told her six months ago. I told no one else directly. But she certainly could have told anybody by now. So it all sank in at once. Could it be that a number of members from my extended family openly proclaim their extreme hatred for Arabs and Muslims and Jihadists and ISIS, all so quickly, all on Facebook today? I mean we're all supposed to be one big happy family but right now all I can think about is is this some kind of twisted joke? What's going on here? I'm telling you if anybody says anything else towards my Malik or me directly then that's all I will need to file discrimination suits against them. Am I right? Am I wrong? What do you think about all this?
