By now many have heard of the mass shooting that has taken place at Orlando's Pulse nightclub on June 12th. Many Pulse clubgoers were enjoying Latin Night when at 2 a.m. shots were fired from inside the club. Police responded and were at a standoff with shooter, Omar Mateen until the shooter was shot and killed. The shooter claimed to have ties with ISIS according to reports. He took 49 lives and injured more than 50 others. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families who have lost their loved ones. I never imagined a tragedy to hit so close to home.
On the internet many have posted their prayers and sent out their condolences to the victim's families and friends, while others have not. I have seen other posts on social media such as Facebook, pointing fingers to the Islam religion, speaking ill of those who live the alternative lifestyles like the victims and so on. Some even blame the President of the United States himself. The ignorance and calling to blame is deafening to the real issue. 49 innocent lives were lost, not "just homosexuals", but human beings who had families and lives of their own. One person, a U.S. born citizen not an immigrant, took the lives of these people. Not the entire Islamic faith, one person with extremist views. This was an attack on America as well as an attack on the LGBTQ community.
Instead of separating from each other because of our views and lifestyle choices, we should be coming together for those who have lost their lives. As one nation, with many cultural differences, we should all be spreading love instead of hate. Those who disagree with the LGBTQ lifestyle because the bible says it is a sin or call the Islamic faith evil. Well here is my reply to you...
"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgement you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you." Matthew 7:1
"O you who believe, let not a people ridicule (another) people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule (other) women; perhaps they may be better than them. And do not insult another and do not call another by (offensive) nicknames. Wretched is the name of the disobedience after one's faith. And whoever does not repent - then it is those who are the wrongdoers." Quran 49:11
"The vile are ever prone to detect the faults of others, though they be as small as mustard seeds, and persistently shut their eyes against their own, though they be as large as vilva fruit." Garuda Purana 112
"And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them 'Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her." John 8:7
"Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." Peter 4:8
"As rain falls equally on the just and unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all." Gautama Buddha
"Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you with for yourself, and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love." Confucius
Many religions have taught us to love one another and not to judge others. Spread the love
