The world of man tires desperately hard to find its identity. A single person can spend an entire life trying to find out who or what they are. And while the joke is that instead of looking within people search outside for "their" persona, we have come up with some very interesting notions about what constitutes "what I am".

"I am a dentist"

"I am a Christian"

"I am a good person"

The above statements are common place and seem relatively harmless but the same notions will lead to:

"You are a criminal"

"You are a terrorist"

"You are evil"

It can seem "right" or even justifiable to label someone as this or that, but you are truly doing harm to yourself and your community. Because of our beliefs and mentalities over the past few millenia, we have grown accustomed to punishing and persecuting people for their beliefs and actions. We have also grown accustomed to finding a mold and trying to fit within it. How can anyone be a "Christian"? There is nothing there to "be". The same is true about "being" a terrorist. Both of these terms are ambiguous. They imply that somehow the individual has altered on some real level and are now empowered by the word or belief. This is not true... at all. The same notions that empower a Christian empower today's "terrorist"; that is the belief that a higher power is rewarding them for their actions, beliefs and devotions. In fact, today's "terrorist" and today's Christian are spawned from the same religious background, believe in the same God and believe they are going to the same Heaven (and the notion that they will receive 72 virgins is a mistranslation, it's actually 72 WHITE GRAPES that give light!!!) .

And while the actions of a "terrorist" are indeed detrimental to society, it seems time we grow up and understand people's actions instead of labeling them as over simplified terms so that we may look at ourselves are better than they are.