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What if we had truly believed that our way of life is best for all people, and believed the faith we so religiously profess, so that when mad men destroyed buildings, and killed 3000 people, we had said, We forgive you; let's talk, we want to understand why you are so angry.
The world would be a very different place now. We would not be bankrupt. We might have supported the United Nations to maintain peace. Thousands of people would be alive who are now dead. We would have most of the world with us.

But we do not have that indomitable faith, and so we lock ourselves in impossible situations, suspecting everyone of doing things we don't like--don't understand, and we make no effort to understand. Now most of the world is afraid of us, afraid of what we might do next to destabilize an already unstable world.

It seems, we want our world to hide itself behind ever more clever locks, even though we should know that someone can invent an ever more clever key, because making locks is much too profitable for the few, and the few control who govern us as well as those who tell us what they want us to know.

I hope the Muslim world will hear the little story of the Amish (and Mennonites, and Brethren, and Quakers, and a few others probably) who do not fear because they have faith. They too are this country. As I am sure there are Muslims who do not fear the terror that roams the world because they have unshakable faith..

robert wolff © October 2006

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