To: Shaw who wrote (21239 ) 9/13/2001 7:50:25 AM From: Shaw Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21342 Correction to my last post, its probably more a case of Moslems against Buddhist icons recently, as India has given safe haven to the Tibetan Buddhist refugees, and the persecution of the minority Buddhist in India, by Hindus was more a thing of the past, if I recall correctly. I was trying to divert the idea of just one religious group being responsible for all the persecution of other groups. Are own fundamentalist Christians are very intolerant and ignorant of the mystical knowledge of other religions. To think that God has not reached out to man in other ways before and after Christ and the Jewdeo Christian tradition, is the height of arrogance and ignorance. What did Christ say in so many words, be like children. Children may not intellectual understand the theology of different religions, but they do know if someone is mean or kind, which is the true test of someone’s spiritual walk. We have to step beyond differences of race, religion, gender. Like they say in Jamaica "one love with respect". Also my apologies, Ali was Mohammad's nephew not first cousin if I recall from a brief study of the life of Mohammad years ago. Again it will take the cooperation and link up of all good people in this world to solve this problem. American still has great prosperity to put to use in making the world a better place, but we are still a young nation compared to the older civilizations throughout the world, and we have a lot to learn about how best to use are resources in a time like this. I know how we all like to act in haste, but this problem is not going away over night. We can use time as a weapon in here, to gather intelligence. There is no place to hide in this world anymore. We need to move forward with the benefit of the world community input, wisdom and intelligence before we act on a near and long range plan, to meet the challenge of this attack. Patience is key, we need to make are first big move count towards the long term not just the short term. America needs to grow up, long term thinking interms of the whole world is key in here, as our population grows on a planet that has limited recourses. "One love with respect" for all good people through out the world is key in here. Are ability to connect and reach out to are brothers and sisters around the world that want to be part of the solution and not the problem, could lead to a whole new era of properity for the world, and make the death and suffering that has just occurred the point where America said we will go forward from here for the good of all life on this planet. A redundant advanced integrated information inforstructure, has just become more important, so has Westeell's teleconferencing division, in the light of these new travel issues.