Mortgaging My Soul, Once Again

I find it confusing to live in a society where it's not acceptable to be racist towards one sect of people and it not be acceptable towards another.   This injustice stems from an incident that I had at our local bank the other day and, for some reason, I just haven't had the time to blog about it until now.  Well, not for some reason, it's because of Warcraft if you really want to know.  But, anyways, moving forward....

I was driving to the bank and I noticed that gas was $1.99.  I did a little jig in my car as, for over a year I do believe, I haven't seen gas under $2.00.  I then drove by the Clark station in our town and noticed that, as always, they were 1 penny less.  ALWAYS 1 penny less, no more, no less, just .01 less then the competition.  So, needless to say, I was going to fill up before going home.

I get to the bank and I made a comment about the gas prices.  One of the ladies asked how much TJ's was (TJ's is a local gas station around here).  I told her that it was $1.99 but the Clark station was $1.98.  She then uttered these words:

"Well, I think I'll be going to TJ's anyways.  It's not like I'm discriminating or anything."

Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge.

As my faithful readers will come to understand in the up coming paragraph, I had an Ally McBeal moment where I leaped over the counter, grabbed her hair with my fist, and started to slam her face into a pile of rolled nickels until she was bleeding and begging for my forgiveness.  I then snapped out of it, smiled my ever-so-cute fake smile, and walked out appalled.  I seriously considered taking my business elsewhere if they didn't have my commercial loan...

Now as to why this comment offended me for those not from around here...

TJ's is locally owned and operated, owned by true Americans.  You know, the white and European kind.

The Clark station is owned by a Middle Eastern man who's Muslim.

Now you're starting to understand where I'm going with this post.

So, post 9/11, it's alright to bash Muslim people but it's non-PC for me to call black people the N word or think of Mexicans as lazy.

I find it revolting and it makes me angry when people think that, just because a few people decided to become terrorist that it puts Muslims into open hunting season.

While I don't particularly know the owner of the Clark gas station, I have met him a couple of times when he was working there.  He seems like a very nice man; always very polite and smiles.  He just doesn't really strike me as the terrorist that everyone feels that he is.  Or, if I purchase from his store, it's not funding terrorism.  Hell I've heard a couple of people that said that they won't shop there because, apparently, this Muslim man funds terrorism.  Because, as we all know, all Muslims are terrorists.

It's just Universal Truth.

It just saddens me that a small group of extremists can do something and everyone makes the assumption that all of them are like that.

So, needless to say, after the bank, I went and did my part for the Terrorism movement and filled my tank all the way up!