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All people are created B’Tzelem Elokim.
The Chief Rabbi of the UK authored tefillos and ordered reciting tehillim for victims of the earthquake in Haiti, genocide in Darfur, and other innocent non-Jews who suffer.
We are obligated to love and treat with dignity all non-Jews. One thing that stuck with me was how the yeshiva Hadar haTorah in Crown Heights has a food pantry where scores of non-Jewish residents come for food. The righteous of all nations have a place in olam haba, and it is our duty to do chesed for all people (Gittin 61).
I find the racist attitudes expressed here to be a shanda and a chillul HaShem. A person who has no rachmanus on murdered children is heartless and soulless.