Hutu Muslims Saved Tutsis During Rwandan Genocide

             In this Youtube video, there is a report on the Hutu Muslims who saved Tutsis. The video explains how Muslims were seen as evil and even lower in class than the Tutsis. However they were not touched because they were evil. Some Muslims used this to their own advantage. They helped save many dying and unprotected Tutsis from death.

            I think that the Muslims who helped the Tutsis are unnoticed saviors during the genocide. They did not care about their ethnicity (Hutu) and instead they cared about their religion. In this way, they believed saving these lives was most important.

            When I saw that these Muslims were unsung heroes, I felt that religion can be good sometimes. It can draw people to do the right things. In fact, this case seems like the Hutu Muslims had the initiative to take in the Tutsis and relocate them to mosques.

            Nowadays, there is all this talk about Muslims desecrating the land named, “Ground Zero”. Americans are afraid that if the Muslims create a mosque just a couple blocks away from where the twin towers once were, it will be an offense to the people who died. Looking back at that piece of news and comparing it to these heroic Muslim Hutus, I feel that there should be less hate for these Muslims. It’s not like these were the same exact Muslims who hijacked the planes.

            There should be less hate on these Muslims and more recognition. Muslim faith is just another religion like Christianity or Judaism and they are all capable of good as I have seen through this video.