It really is bothering me these days watching different minority group in the United States working so hard to marginalize and Balkanize themselves from the rest of American society. This country was built on the sweat and brow of peoples from all around the world who decided to "get along" because they had to for a common economic good. Now, you have a small group of blacks continually screaming "racism, racism, racism" at every tip of the hat, which has now encouraged Muslims -- and now even Jews -- to force themselves on to what I call "professional victimization" in their quest to get their 15 minutes of fame.

Recent cases in point:

* The 6 Muslim clerics who tried to board a US Airways jetliner bound for Minneapolis who started acting up like would-be terrorists ready to commandeer the airliner. When the authorities took control of the situation, they immediately screamed "rational profiling." (Let's face it, Muslims these days don't exactly have a glowing reputation since 911.)

* A Muslim woman in Michigan who went to her gym and in the middle of the facility started doing Muslim prayers -- and when someone complained that doing Muslim chants and prayers next to the freeweights and Lifecycle -- she immediately trotted out a cadre of attorneys claiming "religious intolerance."

* All 15 Christmas trees inside the terminal at Sea-Tac have been removed in response to a complaint by a Seattle rabbi wanted to install an 8-foot menorah and have a public lighting ceremony. He threatened to sue if the menorah wasn’t put up, and gave a two-day deadline to remove the trees which had been a ten year long tradition at the international airport. All that this resulted in all of the holiday trees being removed.

She said that since this is their busiest time of year and they don't have time to add a fair representation of all cultures, her department decided to take down all of the decorations, review their policies, and decide if they need to make a change for next year. A spokesman for the Sea-Tac airport said in a KING-TV5 report, "Our focus is on customer service, getting our passengers through the airport, and we thought if we could take the trees down and avoid litigation because we don't want to litigate with this individual, we want to reach some kind of solution."

My solution for all of the naysayers and professional victims:

SHUT UP and SHOW SOME TOLERANCE FOR OTHERS, JUST AS YOU WOULD WANT PEOPLE TO TOLERATE YOU.

CAPICE?