Good Stories: Civility, even to the “Other”

In this political landscape where so many stories one could tell are traps for this side or that side, it’s refreshing to hear a positive story about politics.

This week in Stafford, Virginia, a Muslim man who is running for congress got some hate online. It’s unfortunate if not surprising, but what the candidate, Qasim Rashid, did next was interesting. He looked further at the profile of one of the “haters” and found something interesting. Rashid even found a way to be kind.

Read the story on CBS News, and see what you think. If you like it and the America these two are building together, what might each of us do to reach out and be kind to a human being, even within someone else we thought was the “other?”