To the editor:

Today, I apologized to my friend, Hanifah for the act of one Canadian in Quebec, who does not share the tolerant view, of millions of other Canadians.

I went on to say I think the media is partially to blame as well. They have to validate their worth to their sponsors. Repeating the bad news over and over again with slight variations day after day makes it seem like the world is a terrible place. That is one of the goals of ISIS.

Fear is an emotion that makes some people use their emotional minds to make decisions ... instead of their logical minds. It polarizes citizens into different camps and destabilizes countries.

US President Donald Trump did the same thing to get votes.

The reality of it is, that the world is much more peaceful since the Second World War, where every major country was using all of its might, to destroy others. We actually have been in a long period of peace, thanks to the United Nations using negotiation and sanctions rather than bombs to enforce things.

Over the thousands of years of human evolution ... fight or flight mechanisms have been hard wired right into us. They are not going to disappear. We are always going to need police forces and the military as a deterrent ... not as a solution.

Education is our only hope. The Golden Rule, tolerance and co-operation always work more smoothly than confrontation and violence. Religions have tried to do this with some success, but unfortunately there are always some religious people who believe that their church owns God. Owning God leaves few choices convert the others, ignore the others or kill the others.

One man said, I trust God ... Its his helpers I dont trust.

The Golden Rule of doing onto others as you would be done by is central to all religions. Thank goodness Canadians model this. Tolerance is paramount.

John Allin,

Trenton

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