Muslim Peace Fellowship

Time to join forces at last.

The moment has arrived  for new vision. 

Leaders inspire, but you and I must do the work.

Help start the change now.

Dec. 29, 2008. Reconciliation assumes that hostilities have ended, that it is time to heal wounds and unite enemies. Such moments are sacred. But not every moment is like this.

When something bad is going on, merely to accept it is craven. Attempting to justify it is worse. But refusing to understand it is monumentally stupid.

I am writing at the moment of the Gaza bombings. My heart is cradling its grief, remembering its visit to that desolate place (on an FOR delegation) in 1998. At that time, the Jews in our party dared not remark above a whisper what the passage inward reminded them of: some thoughts are forbidden. These days I recall 19^th century Indian reservations, the Trail of Tears.

It seemed then that things could scarcely get worse. But they have, they have.

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