Adriana, another valuable post, thanks.

A story that I covered for the Southern California neighborhood that I work for. A Christmas Tree stood in the local park and the Jewish members of the community, with overwhelming community support, put up a large Menorah as well.

One night some idiots cut down the metal menorah and vandalized it. The story received major play in the local and major media. The Hannukah event that year had more attendees that ever before.

Everybody was pleased that such a hateful event spawned such support. The terrible act backfired on the idiots who perpetuated it.

Anyway, While I was interviewing people I ran across a Muslim couple and their family and interviewed them.

They were there they said to express that hate has no place in ANY religion. And they wanted to express their support for their neighborhood and neighbors.

I have traveled a lot. We have people from all over the world on this board. One thing you realize pretty quickly that people are the same ALL over the world. Everybody just wants to be allowed to live and love and be as happy as they can be.

But there are people who crave power that want to incite people to hate. These fanatics, whether they are the Christian fundamentalists that want you to hate gays and muslims or the Muslims that want to convince troubled young Muslims to kill themselves, want power and money on the backs of others.