Thursday, August 2, 2007

The Wasatia Movement - An Alternative to Radical Islam

This is a very interesting and inspiring article, the likes of which you probably won't find in any of the domestic media. Some like to place the blame for this squarely on the media itself, while ignoring the fact that this country has become more insular and self-centered with every passing decade -- something that can scarcely be attributed to media alone.

It's really rather sad and tragic that it takes something like genocide or a terrorist attack for most folks in this country to take any notice of the non-Western hemispheres, the people who live there, their beliefs and ideologies, and how terribly poor (in a LOT of ways) most of them are. It may be human nature to focus on one's own yard & neighborhood to the point of excluding the REST of the world, but then greed/lust/malice/pride/etc (i.e. sin) are also in our nature, right?

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