[lbo-talk] Islam and Muslims (was Doug and Islam)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/16/07, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages at gmail.com>
> >
> >Today, a group called Faith Communities Uniting for Peace organized
> >another public interfaith prayer for peace in the Middle East in
> >Columbus, Ohio.  ... Their anti-war services, which get
> >into the media, are no more supernatural than acts of secular leftists
> >holding signs against the war.
>
> No, I think these prayers for peace are a lot more supernatural than
> secular-leftists' anti-war signs.  The prayers, after all, are directed to
> God; the signs are directed to people.  Achieving peace in the Middle East
> will require human action, not divine intervention.

Both are human actions, directed to the other Americans, the media,
and other human individuals and institutions.  The difference is that
secular leftists, lacking institutions and resources, have fewer human
services to offer to the oppressed than religious leftists.  Both, at
current sizes, don't stand a prayer's chance of success, however, for
anti-war purposes, as the Senate votes show.
-- 
Yoshie