Anger for Anger’s sake.

For some time now, I’ve been plagued by a number of e-mail chain letters coming from a social group I’ve flirted with in the past. The sole person e-mailing me has been passing urban legends, among other things, from what could be called a “religious right” point of view.

This has ranged over anger at modified statues, panicked rhetoric that claims we are on the road to communism, to so-called news stories that the “liberal mainstream media” won’t print, to even actual belief in the “birther” movement.

The latest one is a desperate attmept to invoke the “Christian” nation element, because he and those who have passed the e-mail along are angry at the United States postal service. Apparently, the USPS has invooked their anger for having the audacity to produce a stamp with Islamic symbols to celebrate the holiday Eid ul-Fitr or Eid al-Adha.

I really don’t see a problem.

The same class of stamps also includes religious imagery ranging from menorahs, to Kwanza, to the Madonna and Child, to a generic Happy Holidays. What’s the harm of making a Muslim holiday stamp?

The chain letter goes on to point out all of the Muslim based terrorist attacks and thus they are EVILLL. Never mind the whole problem of homegrown terrorists like, oh, I-don’t-know, Timothy McVeigh?

Terrorism knows no creed. It knows no nationality. It can happen in any civilized or lack thereof society. People go crazy, it happens.