Rioters are a strange breed, usually young men, angry and motivated toward throwing rocks and destroying property. It seems a strange way to defend the honorable name of your prophet. Flag burning is their way of expressing the desire to destroy the presence of our country in their country. Sometimes I wonder if we should just pull out and leave those countries alone, no McDonalds, KFC, consulates, American travel, American products. There is a fundamental dysfunction in this expression of Muslim identity that is not going to work in the world as it has developed today. Hoping it does not spread to our shores.On a personal note, my physical problem was not a pulled muscle but a badly pinched nerve.....I should have known that but I did not. The chiropractor got the bone to move and then applied massage and electric muscle stimulation. Its a hoot to have your muscles firing off involuntarily during the session. I, wonder if this thing would have worked itself out by itself or I would have been in a permanent pickle. The pain was affecting everything, especially driving, I could not sit in the carseat without pain. Oh, to be sure with both topics today, "this too shall pass."
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In 1964 I was a brand new teacher in Rochester, NY. The summer before I was to begin teaching 3rd grade the inner city was torn apart by rioters. Young disenfranchised men. They were frustrated by a lack of jobs, what they perceived as unfair tactics by the government ie police and an awareness of the great divide in wealth. Deaths had occured on both sides including a new heliocopter that crashed with journalists on board. I expect that the disenfranched young men in the middle east experience the same feelings. They see the wealth of the US while they are living at a substance level. Change takes time and there are many little steps before larger ones can occur. Unfortunatly, there is a temptation to overreact when you think there is a danger of not being able to our "USA" riches. Religion is so ofter used as an excus/reason for violence in reaction to what are economic causes. Just a thinking point.
Love Judy
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