My life growing up in the Southern part of America was really quite blessed.  We were not rich.  Both my parents worked.  But I was raised by a gentle, loving man, who was active in his church, and, who, as I later found out from my grandmother, served in World War II’s European Theater.  I did not find out that he landed at Normandy on D-Day until he passed away and my sister and I saw his medal.  My mother was the disciplinarian, who insisted that I do well in my studies.  Despite the fact that she swung a mean yardstick, I knew that I was loved.

Imagine, if you can, growing up Muslim in one of the hot spots for violence around the globe.  Imagine you’re 7 years old.  I won’t ask you to imagine the following.  It’s unimaginable.

A 7-year-old boy accused of being a spy has been hanged by Taliban militants.  The child was put on trial by the militant group and later found guilty of working for Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s government, according to the Daily Mail.

Afghanistan President Karzai labeled this barbarism a “crime against humanity.”

I don’t think there’s a crime bigger than that that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit.

A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy.  A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a seven-year-old boy, and therefore hanging or shooting to kill a seven-year-old boy… is a crime against humanity.

No kidding.

The little boy was publicly hanged in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand province.

As news of the hanging unfolded, Afghanistan was hit with further tragedy as a suicide bomber hit a wedding party, killing at least 40 and severely wounding more than 70 people.  Several children were among the dead and wounded. 

What sort of effect does being surrounded by all this horrific violence have on these impressionable young minds?

From “Christian teacher ‘forced out’ after complaining Muslim pupils praised 9/11 hijackers ‘as heroes,'” by Lucy Ballinger for the Daily Mail, February 8:

A Christian teacher told today how he lost his job after complaining that Muslim pupils as young as eight hailed the September 11 hijackers as ‘heroes’.Nicholas Kafouris said he was forced from his £30,000-a-year post because he would not tolerate the ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Semitic’ behaviour of children.

He said the predominantly Muslim youngsters openly praised Islamic extremists in class, and hailed the terrorists of the 2001 atrocities as ‘martyrs’.

Mr Kafouris, 40, told how one pupil said to him, ‘Don’t touch me, you’re a Christian‘, when the teacher accidentally brushed against him with his arm.

Others said, ‘We want to be Islamic bombers when we grow up‘, and ‘the Christians and Jews are our enemies, you too because you’re a Christian‘, he added.

Mr Kafouris, who had taught at Bigland Green Primary School, in Tower Hamlets, East London, for 12 years, said there was a change in attitude of pupils at the school – where the majority of pupils are Muslim – after the World Trade Center attacks….

Mr Kafouris, a Greek Cypriot, said pupils told him, ‘We hate the Christians’ and, ‘We hate the Jews‘, despite his attempts to stop them….

He had filled out a ‘Racist Incident Reporting Sheet’ but claimed the headteacher Jill Hankey dismissed his concerns….

‘Some children were expressing delight at the death and killing of people of other cultures and religions: In the last week of November 2006 a child was talking about stabbing another child and I told him this was dangerous talk and that a lawyer had recently been stabbed by teenagers; his reply was:, “I’m glad that man died”, ‘Why?’ I asked. “Because he’s a Christian and English and we’re Muslim”.’

During a religious education lesson about Jonah and the whale, he claims one of the pupils asked if Jonah was a Jew, before shouting: ‘I hate the Jews, they’re our enemies.’

Mr Kafouris said he again tried to speak to the headteacher about it.

He said: ‘The head’s response was hostile and offensive again. The very first thing she said to me was: “Oh you again! You’re the only teacher that reports these things! Nobody else does!”.

‘Four times she repeated: “It’s because of your lack of discipline that they’re saying these things”.’…

from The Local, June 9:

Rioting was reported in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby on Tuesday night as 50-60 [Muslim]youths pelted police with stones and set alight to a building.”It is a war zone out here, it is raining stones”, said one witness who wished to remain anonymous to the Metro daily.

According to another witness a bus trying to enter the deprived area was forced to stop.

“Not a single window on the bus was intact,” an eye-witness said.

Police were given an indication that something was afoot earlier in the evening as youths gathered on the streets equipping themselves with paving stones.

“They did all they could to attract our attention,” said Mats Brännlund at Stockholm police.

But police decided to react first when a building housing a mentor programme for young people in the area, burst into flames.

“We had to help the emergency services to get through,” Brännlund said.

In total around 20 police patrols with dogs were present in the area throughout the night as they tried to restore calm. Police vehicles were also subject to stone throwing.

“If you attack the police with stones and set alight to buildings then I would venture to suggest that it can be classified as rioting,” he said.

The fire services deployed 21 staff from three fire stations at the location, but none were reported to have been subjected to stone throwing.

A branch of the Nordea bank was attacked at around midnight with the local police station also the target of stone throwing youths. Two men were detained in connection with the police station attack….

Is it because these young people were taught the following tenets of the “religion of peace”?

Qur’an (2:191-193) – And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution [of Muslims] is worse than slaughter [of non-believers]…and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah.   

Qur’an (2:216) – Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But Allah knoweth, and ye know not.

 Qur’an (3:56) – As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help. 

Qur’an (3:151) – Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers, for that they joined companions with Allah, for which He had sent no authority.   

Qur’an (4:74) – Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward.   

Qur’an (4:89) – They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks. 

Qur’an (4:95) – Not equal are those believers who sit (at home) and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit (at home). Unto all (in Faith) Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit (at home) by a special reward.   

Qur’an (4:104) – And be not weak hearted in pursuit of the enemy; if you suffer pain, then surely they (too) suffer pain as you suffer pain…  

Qur’an (5:33) – The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement.

 Qur’an (8:12) – I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them. 

As opposed to the tenets of the religion of over 75 % of Americans: