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https://cindydeboer.com/2017/01/27/will-muslims-mexicans-and-my-daughter-be-forced-to-wear-visible-id-badges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-muslims-mexicans-and-my-daughter-be-forced-to-wear-visible-id-badges Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:22:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://cindydeboer.com/2017/01/27/will-muslims-mexicans-and-my-daughter-be-forced-to-wear-visible-id-badges/#comment-140 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 22:58:39 +0000 http://cindydeboer.com/?p=574#comment-140 Reblogged this on kathleenbduncan and commented:
This is thought-provoking. On MLK Day, think a bit. How do you treat others who don’t look on the outside just like you?

]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2017/01/27/will-muslims-mexicans-and-my-daughter-be-forced-to-wear-visible-id-badges/#comment-139 Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:57:01 +0000 http://cindydeboer.com/?p=574#comment-139 ]]> I am a Christian.
1•1•Six all the way.
I am not ashamed of that.
I am an american (unfortunately somewhat ashamed of that).
I am not mixed (well, no more than the usual). I am completely white. Immigrants are so far back in my family line that I couldn’t name the first ones if I tried. (And unless you’re full-blooded native american, you have immigrants in your family line too.)
Yet I cover my head (for a number of reasons, though it started with 1Cor 11), even completely covering my hair, and wear pants under dresses/skirts all the time. Now, I don’t really look like a muslim to those who know better, but most people don’t know better. I still wear short sleeves and flip-flops and there are tufts of hair peeking out of my covering. I do not usually wear a hijab. And my skirts are not usually floor-length. In fact, 9 times out of 10, they come just passed my knees, even occassionally above my knees. There are, of course, variations in the “dress code” for muslims, but these things go against the generalities. But, as I said, most people don’t know better….And so I am often mistaken for a muslim, which can cause (and has caused) complications for me.
Personally, one of the most problematic things I’ve had to experience is getting my liscence. Even though you can clearly see my face, the people who run that stuff seem to think that it is necessary to see your hair. I don’t understand this since hair can be (and is) changed so easily (cut, died, styled differently, shaved, covered, etc.) But most seem to think you should reveal your hair for your liscence picture then go back to covering it (so that you’re unrecognizable when someone looks at your liscence). I think the point of the liscence has been missed….Thankfully, I did not have to go through much the two times I’ve gotten such identification (I’m only 18), but I fear what may happen with Mr. Trump in office….
The truth is, these things affect more than the minority that we try to persecute. It affects some of our own. But I guess there are always casualties on both sides when a war is fought, and I guess sacrificing a few for the sake of supposed thousands will be worth it in the end. (No matter how I try to say it, it always sounds sarcastic when typed without expression. That’s not entirely how I meant it, though some sarcasm was intentional.) *Sigh* And in fighting to slay the dragon we so fiercely fight against, are we in turn becoming the thing that we hate? Or will we perhaps find that we were standing in front of a mirror the whole time and we’ve only been slaying ourselves all along, causing our own demise? I just wonder….
Great article, btw. I am passionate about the rights of immigrants, especially hispanics and muslims, and I detest the persecution and/or discrimination against such minorities that is so often found in this country. But I must be careful not to become overzealous and cruel to the persecuters, becoming the thing that I hate. I only mean this as an informative and thought-provoking comment—an avenue for civil discussion—and as an encouragement to you. I hope that goal has been met. In the words of Paul, “may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you always”. 🙂
The aspiring little bird,
~Kegan Cook~
♥

]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2017/01/27/will-muslims-mexicans-and-my-daughter-be-forced-to-wear-visible-id-badges/#comment-138 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 04:34:42 +0000 http://cindydeboer.com/?p=574#comment-138 How heartbreaking this is. I don’t even know what to do. Will you please share any action ideas?

]]> https://cindydeboer.com/2017/01/27/will-muslims-mexicans-and-my-daughter-be-forced-to-wear-visible-id-badges/#comment-137 Sat, 28 Jan 2017 01:26:05 +0000 http://cindydeboer.com/?p=574#comment-137 “Do you think something similar – the systematic persecution and extermination of a people group – could happen today?”
It’s happening at the rate of over one million a year… the people group is the unborn.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5
As much as I agree with much of what you have said, if I have to choose a people group to defend, it will be the unborn first.

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