Yes, it's a particularly tricky balance: practicality, safety and compassion. As Nietzsche put it: how not to become monsters ourselves when fighting monsters...

By way of introduction, here, is my Coming to America story, as a lucky immigrant, poet & also Muslim

Thank you, @kuc-prawica, for supporting poetry on this platform--art is my activism and how I seek to heal our wounded and divided world. Peace, all ways, Yahia