[new cruelty]

Feel-good, feed the world, navel gazing, sugar coated poo.

[MEG33]

Oh,brother..

[etcetera]

William R. Stimson = Stimpy?

[Sir Gawain]

Head in the sand, we are the world-singing, hippie holdover....

[SolutionsOnly]

America linked with Islam? Huh?

Sorry, but we left the 14th century in the 14th century.

[Alouette]

Because of the financial muscle of American Jewish campaign contributors, the President of the United States is hostage to a tiny handful of die-hard fundamentalist religious zealots in Israel, hell-bent on settling Arab lands. The wrath of Islam strikes out at America.

If only Israel and JOOOZ didn't exist, the world would be a peachy place!

[Puppage]

What Unites America With Islam

AHHHH, that's better.

[kingu]

William R. Stimson lives in Taiwan. More of his writing can be found at http:www.my-hope.com/Bill

Gee, thanks for the advice, Billy, but I think that we've enough wackos in our own country telling us how to run it.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

[evad]

Wonder what the title has to do with anything the author said?

BARF ALERT!

[cinnathepoet]

Uh...

Once Ralph Waldo Emerson was mentioned, I knew the article had problems.

[Lucky Dog]

New Age drivel!!! It is awfully hard to fell "connected," etc. to Islam, Buddism, etc., when you're dead. Someone should tell the suicide bombers...

[Redcloak]

What Unites America With Islam[?]

Usually gravity as it takes our bombs to their towel-wrapped, evil heads.

[muawiyah]

The Buddhist monk picks up the caterpillar and sets it carefully on the otherside of the trail where it will die an agonizingly slow death of starvation ~ can't have those caterpillars killing anything either, eh?!

[Restore]

The holy war has nothing to do with killing but is more akin to the arduous struggle of a hatching chick with its shell. Jihad is a confrontation with the conditioned self and a breaking through that false identification into a direct experience of the sacred, the eternal.

Baloney

Swaths of the American West are poisoned with radioactivity.

Ohmygawd! Wait...where?

Because of the financial muscle of American Jewish campaign contributors, the President of the United States is hostage to a tiny handful of die-hard fundamentalist religious zealots in Israel, hell-bent on settling Arab lands.

Okay, that one did it. Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

[Napoleon Solo]

"What Unites America With Islam" ---> NOTHING!!

"Each religious tradition comes from a specific people who lived in a specific place at a specific time and uses images familiar in that context to convey a truth that is the same across all religious traditions. Only the metaphors used to describe the truth are different, not the truth. The truth is one. Everything is connected. Everything is sacred. We don't, any of us, individually or collectively - Islam or America - exist apart from that whole; but are interwoven in it by a billion, billion strands. Each is sacred and each must somehow be honored. We neglect any single one at our peril." ---->

SO LONG AS IT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE JEWS!!

[Bob Mc]

"Yet because each religion expresses this same truth in its own language..."

This so called "truth" he refers to and so horribly fails to identify in this screed is very well summed in our "Declaration of Independence":

"... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. ..."

[reed_inthe_wind]

"But the instant we emerge from the illusion of a separate self, our behavior changes."

There is just one thing missing in this guys utopia - us.

Eph.1
[1] Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God,
To the saints who are also faithful in Christ Jesus:


[2]
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


[3]
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,


[4] even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
[5] He destined us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
[6] to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
[7] In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace
[8] which he lavished upon us.
[9] For he has made known to us in all wisdom and insight the mystery of his will, according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ
[10] as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
[11]
In him, according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will,


[12] we who first hoped in Christ have been destined and appointed to live for the praise of his glory.
[13] In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
[14] which is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
[15]
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,

[cwb]

"Because of the financial muscle of American Jewish campaign contributors, the President of the United States is hostage to a tiny handful of die-hard fundamentalist religious zealots in Israel, hell-bent on settling Arab lands. The wrath of Islam strikes out at America."

Really?...Then tell me why it is that Islam is also striking out in places like Nigeria, the Phillipines, the Balkans, Indonesia, Chechnya...and just about any place a Muslim country borders a non-Muslim country. Hell, they strike out at each other between the sects of Wahabbi, Shi'ite, Sunni, etc. Keep dreaming.

[Snagglepuss]

What Unites America? In the instance of this article, we must surmise that our sense of smell unites us. :-)

[Migraine]

so long as we persist in seeing the problem as theirs alone...

...uh, the problem is theirs alone... They just kinda made themselves into our problem when they came and paid us a visit. And that's the only thing America has to do with Islam.