Rajiv Thind, 29 July 2008

on "The Time Has Come to Invest in Iraq", Interview with Nuri al-Maliki

Nouri Al Maliki's tribalism is disgusting. Not only because it gives an insight into his clogged mind but also because that's the way it is with most of the troubled Islamic world .

If Muslims cannot even be friends with their own brethren, so to speak, how can they even dream of building bridges of trust, tolerance and friendship with the rest of the world?

Tribalism or ethnocentrism has always been the real cause of all of world's problems: massacres, genocides, slavery, persecution, wars and of course terrorism. For once, let's just be what we are: human beings.

Human beings and humanism are the shared central subject and ideal of world's two biggest religions: Christianity and Islam, not to mention the scientific, enlightened or secular world. Despite this glaring fact, why are we so blind?

Rajiv Thind, New Zealand