Thanks for the very nice post.
A whole lot of freepers seem to think all Muslims are religious fanatics and that they are all working together to subvert America and the West.
I’ve never believed that. Most are in many ways very similar to the rest of us, as you eloquently point out.
The problem is that there are a whole bunch of them who do want to kill us all, with the subsidiary problem that a great many of those who don’t will stand with their “brothers” who do in a confrontation.
I also agree that they think differently about certain things than we do. I’ve always found it odd that “progressives” always assume that the highest ambition of every person around the world is to be just like upper-class educated American or European liberals. Despite their professed belief in diversity, they don’t really believe in it.
Some people just have different value systems than we do.
Thank YOU for yours too.
This last comment of yours rings so true. We had to keep reminding ourselves that we were in a foreign country, with a different political system (king) and a WHOLE set of different values.
In reality, those five years over there taught me MOST about myself, what was important in life, to me and how I wanted to live my life.
It made me a better person, and thanks to my Saudi boss, I began to attend DAILY Mass OVER THERE and continue as I write. Whodda EVER thunk that I would be attending DAILY MASS thanks to my Saudi Muslim boss?
Does God ever work in mysterious ways or what?