Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91i.950429124130.15082A-100000@hardy.u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 12:46:43 -0700 From: mailto:kisutch@U.WASHINGTON.EDU> Subject: Re: The Second Bomb of Oklahoma City To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
On Sat, 29 Apr 1995 mailto:3505mabd@vm1.ulaval.ca wrote:> An article by a middleastern journalist
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> The Second Bomb of Oklahoma City
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> The Arabs and Muslims in this country and in the world need to be
> understood and respected, just like all the people and cultures of the
> world. We all value life and the lives of our children. If the media,
> the "experts" and the politicians are trying to monopolize humanity for
> "people like us," then they are wrong and must be stopped. There is no
> difference between a mother in Rwanda who traveled 100s of miles on foot
> to find a safe place for her children and a mother in Oklahoma City
> spending extra time telling a bed time story to here kids. The Iraqi
> parent who came out of a bombed shelter holding his dead son in his hands
> is not different from the fire fighter who carried the dead child out of
> the Oklahoma City federal building. The tears that Lebanese mothers,
> Israeli mothers, Palestinians mothers, Bosnian mothers, Angolan mothers,
> Guatemalan mothers, Nicaraguan mothers, Sri Lankan mothers and mothers
> all over the world drop out of sadness and fear for their children are
> not different from the tears we are hearing from the mothers in Oklahoma
> City. Let that be the lesson of Oklahoma City terrorist attack so we can
> put out the racist and hatred bomb that exploded afterwards.
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To which I can only say...Amen. People are people, hate is hate...the sooner we all recognize this, the better we will all be. Seek first to understand, and then be understood...