Quoting my good friend Edwin Goutier:
Dang. Look how quickly an act of kindness changed his mind.
"After the Houston fire, Joshua Gray, a truck driver from Catersville, Georgia, took to Facebook and accused Muslims in the United States of not taking a stand against Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
He called Muslims "scum," in one comment, and in another post he wrote that he hoped a mosque "burns for every American killed by these terrorists."
Zahid responded to Gray by inviting him to Quba. Gray, already driving through Houston area, accepted. Then he spent five hours at the mosque speaking with its members and seeing them in prayer.
"It just changed my opinion on a lot of the things I’ve seen and heard by just going in and actually talking to him face to face," Gray, who said he never met Muslims prior to visiting Quba, told Al Jazeera."
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/20/houston-mosque-set-ablaze-responds-to-hate-with-love.html
Dang. Look how quickly an act of kindness changed his mind.
"After the Houston fire, Joshua Gray, a truck driver from Catersville, Georgia, took to Facebook and accused Muslims in the United States of not taking a stand against Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
He called Muslims "scum," in one comment, and in another post he wrote that he hoped a mosque "burns for every American killed by these terrorists."
Zahid responded to Gray by inviting him to Quba. Gray, already driving through Houston area, accepted. Then he spent five hours at the mosque speaking with its members and seeing them in prayer.
"It just changed my opinion on a lot of the things I’ve seen and heard by just going in and actually talking to him face to face," Gray, who said he never met Muslims prior to visiting Quba, told Al Jazeera."
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/20/houston-mosque-set-ablaze-responds-to-hate-with-love.html
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