Tag: terrorism

The Secular Humanists of Western Lake Erie strong­ly con­demns the ter­ror­ist attack that hap­pened at the Tree of Life Synagogue this past Saturday.

Our con­do­lences go out to the friends and fam­i­ly of the vic­tims and wish a speedy recov­ery of those injured.

No one should be sin­gled out, harassed, dis­crim­i­nat­ed against, or sub­ject­ed to any vio­lence because of their reli­gious beliefs, lack of reli­gious beliefs, or polit­i­cal views.

The mur­ders on Saturday are a prime exam­ple why our cur­rent polit­i­cal lead­ers must stop try­ing to scape­goat a group of peo­ple to score cheap polit­i­cal points for their base.

When some­one like our President of the United States sin­gles out peo­ple he does­n’t like with base­less accu­sa­tions, it gives cov­er for oth­ers to actu­al­ly act against mem­bers of that same group.

The mur­ders on Saturday, the shoot­ing in Kentucky, and ser­i­al mail bomb­ings in recent days shows the ter­ri­ble side of some in this coun­try. Humanists will con­tin­ue to work on reduc­ing tox­ic trib­al­ism and angry nation­al­ism. All of us need to work togeth­er to let those who want to do harm know that they will not be wel­come and will be resist­ed.