Some interesting sound bites...

I have heard some interesting commentary on various news stories lately. Probably the one that sticks out the most was a NPR commentator who pointed out the fact that our presence in the Middle East, no matter what you may think about it politically, amounts to one simple concept: a bunch of Christians trying to "liberate", or pacify violence in a region dominated by Muslims. I think that is an interesting concept. In fact, I heard another sound bite that was from FOX News, but was coincidentally related to the former. The commentator quoted a prominent sheik from Iraq who was disheartened that there was Muslim/Muslim violence, and this was being combated and stopped by a bunch of Christians. Where are the moderate Muslims. I am sure there are moderate activists, standing up for a more wholesome, life loving Muslim message, but they aren't making themselves heard in the mass media (not in this country, anyway).

It got me thinking about Christian terrorists in the good ol' USA in the 1960's. Some were outspoken "white-power" activists in the KKK, and others were closet terrorists that had high ranking government posts (the Governor of Alabama for instance). The atrocities beheld by the public during that turbulent time in our country may not have consisted of suicide bombers or road side bombs, but there were some ugly stories to be told. On the menu at that time was lynching, random murder, church bombings targetting children, burning crosses, and assassination. Hmm....sound familiar? Didn't a Lebanese minister just get assassinated?

What I am trying to say is I think it is interesting that we are not hearing more from the Muslim moderation. During the Civil Rights Crisis in America, there was an outspoken and effective movement from the Christian moderation. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was one leader of this movement.

Maybe it is still early. Maybe we still have to wait for the more intelligent, and more importantly, the more life-loving Muslims to come out of the woodwork and save the world.

I know there are millions of them out there!