Thank You
By: Rizwan Alladin

As a US-born American Muslim, I am comforted by the open-mindedness of many fellow Americans amidst all the fury over "Ground Zero Mosque" and "Burn-a-Koran Day".  Instead of singling me out or defaming my faith, I have been reassured by neighbors, colleagues, and strangers that they don't think of me as unpatriotic, non-peaceful, and unfriendly.  My allegiance to my faith has been respected, if not encouraged.  As a senior vice president from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, I vow to repay these American sentiments by speaking out against religious terrorism, violence, and persecution and remind fellow American Muslims of the true peaceful teachings of Islam.