Terrorists

Qu'Ran carrying, turban wearing, Allah praying people.
Muslims after that day were never really seen as an equal, only a fear.
Shed tears over dear loved ones and an unclear validation for the event that stamped a stereotype that's hard to erase.
Just trace the origin of this mistake back to 9/11,
I was about 7, didn't understand the controversy back then but now I see.
I see who the terrorists are.
They're plastered all over your tv's and have mastered the technique
of burying truth and telling you lies.
Hiding behind their greater than little white lies.
And you listening? Is your biggest demise.
They're in the corporate offices.
The ones in charge, living large.
The suitcase carrying, suit wearing, God praying people.
The ignorant pricks who can't grasp the concept that the words Allah and God are equal.
The white collar workers.
Working and lurking behind their desks,
smirking at how they've contorted the truth,
and you snorted it up like an addict snorts their heroin.
you've injected it, soaked it all in, now you're subjected to them.
You gullible American believed everything your "perfect" government told you.
These are the ones who stood behind leaving your fellow troops dodging mines in Afghanistan.
The ones making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.
Giving the more fortunate all of the luck, while you're still in the green field searching for your four leaf clover.
The ones who infringe your rights by ensuring you, that they're protecting them.
The government that people believe is a democracy, is all a hypocrisy in my eyes.

Ask an educated american.
He's not an advocate of terrorism, but the terror is in him.
Because he realized, his demise is in the hands of those in disguise.
So who's the real terrorist?
The innocent Muslim woman in her hijab who's seen as a terrorist simply because she's Arabic?
Or the white collar worker who supports sending troops overseas for a cause we can't see to get murdered?

You choose.

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