It will end with this house.

This year as I looking through pintrest I came across packets and ideas for teaching about September 11. At first interested I began tossing the idea around (along with election and Olympics).

 I tossed it aside. I did not agree with how the subject was being presented.

My children will learn about the event that took place even before they were born. They will understand the reason it affected their lives specifically.

 However when they learn of that day it will be based on an understanding of extremists.

I hope to pass on to my children just as was passed on to me a love, a deep unwavering love for every culture/ religion.  I also hope to pass on the understanding that each culture has its extremists and that these extremist have through history and will continue to wreak havoc on the relationships of the world.

I am a Christian.

I have been saved, asked Jesus Christ into my heart.

I have Jewish friends.

I have Muslim friends

In fact it may surprise many of my friends but I have….

Worn traditional Muslim head coverings

Read passages of the Quran

Lite candles on a Menorah.

Spun a dreidel.

I enjoyed learning about and even participating in these traditional activities.

When I teach my children about 9/11 it will not be attached with a wrong label like “Terrorist Muslim men attacked the primarily Christian United States.”  It will be truthful

“Men who were extremists and corrupt; who perverted a religion and used it as an excuse to demean another culture and murder innocent people by ……..”

As the rest of this week events unfold I think the same thing….

“That a perverted and corrupt man used a movie to demean another culture/ religion and another group of perverted and corrupt men used it as a chance to attack and murder…….”

I have had enough these men are not Christian, Muslim or Jewish they are corrupt. They are criminals, terrorist who achieve their happiness by inflicting wounds on others. These men do not deserve a religious label. These men do not speak for the bulk of the population but in fact are a minority.

So to my Christian, Muslim and Jewish friends the mothers and fathers of the next generation it is my promise to you that my children will love your children not matter your culture and religion. That the false labels and hate will end with my house!

It is my deepest wish that others join me. That the change in our hearts, that the love for one another is seen by my children and their children.