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To: Kona who wrote (26591)	5/28/1999 12:52:00 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

I am an Arsenal fan, MANCHESTER UNITED won the league and the FA cup a double crown. Congratulations to the reds. What a brandised world we live in, we have global icons we follow, may be we humans are born global, limitless in our horizon. Distance has remained the greatest challenge to us and in our most embroynic stage of development we wanted to fly and swim, to add to our our inborn abilitiy is what we humans have tried the most, we have conquered almost everything except our basic animalistic instincts to 'tear first and than ask questions'. Yes, world is shrinking but we have in this region unfortunately missed the opportunity to reap the benefits of a peace dividends Freedom and democracy are eye catching words and we utilize them to slaughter mankind. To attain these lofty ideals of freedom and democracy do we rally need to go through the rituals of brutal massacres and extermination. The problem is someone's freedom fighter is other country terrorist, even hardened 'freedom fighters' like Yaser Arafat had to go for peaceful co-existence, the change of hearts to accept peace as an option unfortunately only comes after huge loss of human life. May be, we man have it as part of our innate nature to accept a lesser evil one after we go through the pain and consequences of bigger evil. Despite of this lesson that annihilations and mass murders have failed to achieve objectives, the right approach is negotiations. We as humans still err, mass exodus and mass extermination is still associated with human race, that is one stigma we should all collectively try to wash. I say it loud and clear shedding blood of a Jew, Hindu, Christian, and Muslim or an atheist is unpardonable sin, no one and no religion has a carte blanche to impose its will on others and its own sense of puritanical values. We are human first and I take greatest pride in that rest everything else ideology and other paraphernalia for me is immaterial. I have found my peace in this small thing. Go beyond color race creed and religion. Non-violence is the only way, everyone has ability to tear each others arm, the civilizations collective virtue would be to forego that and win hearts instead of limbs