With everything happening around the world right now, people tend to over-generalize and take to blaming things on large groups of people, rather than narrowing in on the true root of the issue -- and this is wrong. It is not only wrong, but it is enormously ignorant to place blame on an entire group of people for the atrocities committed by the hands of a number of individuals.

The slapping of the words "Islamic State" at the beginning of ISIS has only helped to foster what is already of skewed stereotype attached to all Middle Eastern descendants. It is not the actions Islamic people, as a whole. Not all those affiliated with the religion of Islam are out attacking cities around the world or sending threats. No, those are terrorists. Islam is a religion, one of the largest in the world, and terrorism knows no religions. A terrorist is a person who uses violence and hateful criminal activity in the pursuit of some sort of gain, whether it be monetary or to fulfill their own delusions of religious grandeur they think will await them. These people are not on the search for God or Allah, they are killing people and terrorizing people around the world. The only way we can hope to keep some semblance of order is to unite and overcome this group of radical extremists, we have to know the truth. These are bad people, and bad people come from any religion, any culture and any country. To stereotype all of Islamic culture as terrorists only plants seeds of intolerance into the social psyche, and definitely doesn't further our goal of unification against them, and that is what they want.

When a white, Christian American goes into a school or a building and starts to shoot, do we say that all of American Christians are murders? No, we say that this one loner had mental issues and committed a heinous crime against the innocent. Let's have this same mindset for other humans who are not from this country. Why can't we open our minds to see that we are all human? We are all individuals, have their own agendas and it doesn't matter whether you are a Christian, Muslim, or any other religion for that matter, acts of cruelty and terrorism see no color and no religion, only hate.

While it is easy to sit inside and read what the Facebook world says and what a lot of uninformed Americans write everywhere, it is our job to recognize the truth from the meaningless and say something. Open the minds of people and make them see that putting this on the Islamic people as a whole makes bigots and spreads hate amongst the rest of everyone, and that is the opposite of what this world needs right now. What this world needs now is love and compassion, sympathy for those affected, empathy for each other as humans, but also strength and a thirst for truth and justice. Know that many of those who believe in the core values of the Islamic faith are good and are facing these threats of terrorism much the same as we, and in times like these we can't alienate those that share in our same goal, to evolve from our current world a into one of peace and acceptance.