I Care About Muslim Persecution and so Should You

This first column of the new year should be about resolutions, regrets or reminiscing.

But I can’t, in good conscience, focus on trivial pursuits, or even self-absorbed reflection of my past follies and foibles. We’re entering a new decade (I’m not entertaining any arguments on whether it starts this year or next), but we need to clean up and work on the past one that threatens everyone’s existence.

While we all will have to work together to deal with the reality of climate change — as if one day of 57 degrees followed by a snow day is normal in any way — we also have to acknowledge what happens when one minority group is systematically being threatened, tortured and killed, and voices remain silent, condone the violence, or simply turn away in complicity.