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Peace is Possible
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Message Congress
Timely Aphorisms
True religion nourishes love, tolerance, empathy, altruism
The take away of this article is not that Muslims were humanistic and Christians were brutal, but that tolerance is far better than vengeance.
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The Crusaders laid waste to much of Palestine and tried to erase Arab culture. They burned all the books on religion, science, and literature that they could find and murdered or exiled people who wouldn’t renounce their religion and convert to Christianity.
Saladin united a lot of Arab tribes and drove the Crusaders out. Then, surprisingly, he founded the pluralistic Ayyubid Empire which was characterized by tolerance of all religions and nationalities. It was a golden age of peace, prosperity, science, literature, fine art, and free trade until overthrown by the Mamluks after 79 years.
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Under the Pomegranite Tree, by Tarik Ali is an insightful historical novel about Islamic life under the Crusaders.
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With 0.2% of the population and 22% of the Nobel Prizes, Jews are arguably the smartest people on the planet.
It’s a crying, miserable, suffering shame that they haven’t yet come up with a peaceful solution to their lebensraum problem.
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I have a dream:
- The nations of the world unite in the fight against climate change.
- War becomes obsolete.
- Nuclear armaments get repurposed into a safe, inexpensive, nearly inexhaustible, Thorium-based source of energy. We could use a small amount of the energy to blast the dangerous waste into space.