2/23/18: Ignoring the Gold and Rainy Weather, the dearborn community held vigil for Florida school shooting victims.
Ignoring the Cold and Rainy Weather, the Dearborn community held vigil for Florida school shooting victims.
There is no such a thing as
good shooters or bad shooters, good terrorists or bad terrorists, good dictators or bad dictators!
We all must stand against ignorance, injustice and evil regardless of race or religion of the evil doers!
From Rep Debbie Dingell, State Rep, Abdallah Hamoud, Chief Haddad and a number of other officials, City Council members and some community members who are running for the coming election such as Sam Beydoun and Gary Woronchak, also community activists such as Rabih Hamoud and Tarek Beydoun and a good group of students and neighbors attended, some spoke and all did a great job.
Rev. Fran and Imam Elahi offered some prayer and thoughts as well.
Some of Imam Elahi's Points....
Saluting the solidarity of our city with the suffering families in Florida. This is demonstration of your dignity, patriotism, compassion and your support for those hearts broken families who deserve our sincere prayers and support.
Standing against violence and protection of sacred lives is a moral and national duty of us all.
Hopefully the president and members of our Congress would listen to this loud national voice and recognize that in addition to prayer, actin is needed. Let's learn from nations such as Japan and Australia who made good gun control laws! Let's save 34000 American lives destroyed every year.
Let's put the sacredness of life ahead of greed and selfishness of this bloody business of gun glorification.
Let's prevent this kind of crimes through promotion of faith, family and moral values and also making laws that stop sick people and criminals from having access to guns.
In an interview with a reporter, Imam Elahi mentioned that instead of Nicolas who is a white supremacist, if the shooter had different name, the entire political propaganda machine would act 100 percent differently. Now no one calls Nicolas a terrorist, no one asked about his religion, his place of worship, his pastor. The president who uses the language of fire, fury, ban, bomb and burn, used the prayer and love language and asked the nation to answer evil with love and cruelty with kindness!
To win our struggle against violence and terrorism we must act with sincerity and the same standards.
There is no such a thing as good shooters and bad shooters, good terrorists and bad terrorists, good dictators and bad dictators!
We all must stand against ignorance, injustice and evil regardless of race or religion of the evil doers!