Baltimore McDonald's Beating

This beating at a Rosedale McDonald's is a window into what goes on in Baltimore City and Baltimore County on a regular basis. It is not an uncommon act in malls and fast-food places. Even if many confrontations don't escalate into this kind of violence, taunting, slurs, insults, and threats are omnipresent. Its time for people to stand up against the proliferation of verbal assaults as well as violent assaults.

Matthew 5:43-48

You have learned that they were told, “Love your neighbor, hate your enemy.” But what I tell you is this: Love your enemies and pray for your persecutors; only so can you be children of your heavenly Father, who makes his sun shine on good and bad alike, and sends the rain on the honest and the dishonest. If you love only those who love you, what reward can you expect? Surely the tax-gatherers do as much as that. And if you greet only your brothers, what is there extraordinary about that? Even the heathen do as much. There must be no limit to your goodness, as your heavenly Father’s goodness knows no bounds.

Torah:
 "Cain rose against his brother Abel and killed him (Genesis 4:8)." Immediately Cain is punished by G-d with exile and the eventual dying out of his line after seven generations.


 Qur'an:
 "Whoever kills a person [unjustly]…it is as though he has killed all mankind. And whoever saves a life, it is as though he had saved all mankind." (Qur'an, 5:32).