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Nipawin - Monday, October 1, 2001 - by: Mario deSantis | ||||
God |
It is disconcerting to realize that both President Bush and the terrorists have invoked God to win their wars. President Bush has claimed that | |||
"freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them" |
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while the terrorists were reminded to | ||||
"remember the battle of the prophet ... against the infidels, as he went on building the Islamic state." |
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consequences |
I have the fear that this war on terrorism will last forever, and that we have to live with the consequences, more innocent victims, more poverty, more hate. Rather than waging a war between 'freedom and fear' or 'against the infidels' it would be better for all of us to listen to our hearts. A New Yorker exclaimed |
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despair |
It seems to me that power and economic greed drive the never ending conflicts in the Middle East, yet the media pushes these concerns and our rational explanations blame Islamic fundamentalism for all this human despair. If for only a moment we could listen to our hearts and think about our future and our children, I know we wouldn't have such conflicts and such human despair. | |||
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peace |
We need justice and peace, neither a war between 'freedom and fear' nor 'against the infidels.' | |||
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------------References: | ||||
Transcript of President Bush's address, CNN, September 20, 2001 http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/20/gen.bush.transcript | ||||
Letter to hijackers 'shocking view' of their mind-set. Instructions from Atta, by Michael Higgins National Post, September 29, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010929/712400.html | ||||
New York: City of sirens, by Greg Barrow in New York, BBC News September 12, 2001 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1540000/1540277.stm | ||||
Why do they hate us?', by Peter Ford | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor September 27, 2001 http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0927/p1s1-wogi.html |