Friday, November 24, 2006

SLEEPING DEMONS

To be a Muslim today can be troublesome.

Especially on planes.

Take the woman who was kicked off of her flight because she was nursing her baby.

Or those men who got kicked off of their plane for praying too loudly.

They were also discussing politics.

(That can get anyone into trouble.)

But praying to God and breast-feeding.

Now those are two dangerous acts of terror!

When I lived in Afghanistan, I took in stride the noisy mullahs shouting their prayers.

I took in stride the men who prayed a lot every day.

Of course, there wasn't any public breast feeding.

Recently, we saw and heard those volcanic reactions that erupted from Michael
Richards.

Impulses---savage and sleeping---dwell inside of us.

None of us know when dormant demons will jump out of our souls.

The scariest part is that no human is without demons.

The genetic code has imbedded demonic traits in our genes whether we like it (or know it).

Some have fewer demons.

Some have more.

Let's pray that the human race drinks more of the milk of human kindness, not less, to make a better world.

Until then...

Keep your ears and eyes open!

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