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From Jawdat Said
We live in a world in which four fifths of its population live in frustration while the other fifth lives in fear. The United Nations, our world's "figleaf," does not hide the shame of humanity but rather scandalizes humanity's malaise. It is troubling that the League of Nations and the United Nations were born after two world wars. Humanity's unity should come as a natural birth and not as the result of a caesarian section, i.e., through violent global wars. This is reminiscent of the ages of epidemics. Then, because of ignorance about the causes behind these illnesses, plagues swept through communities, leaving millions of dead behind. Yet, after technology made it possible for us to see smaller forms of life and medicine brought us a better understanding of germs, communities became better equipped to halt disease and heal the sufferers. If a country now is devastated by an epidemic, we blame it on the lack of sufficient hygiene. So too, the wars that erupt here and there are caused by ignorance of the intellectual organisms that infect communities with hate and influence people to commit atrocities. In today's world, relying on science, we concern ourselves with preventing germ warfare while sheltering the intellectual viruses that destroy us: our intellectual foods are still polluted. We cannot afford to continue to be confused or ignorant about these invasive germs.
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- "Ten millennia back, humans learned agriculture and the domestication of animals, but they also learned how to enslave other humans - yes, some humans started to be sold together with the land on which they worked. This is the tragic aspect of the new epoch: for ten thousand years, man has been adjusting to agriculture, but he is still trying, for the adjustment has not so far succeeded: We still find some humans enslave other humans, and we still find a minority of people living in luxury on the shoulders of the majority." - "As I understand Islam, it is possible for me to associate with people, in justice and kindness to all people - with only one condition, that they give up violence, and do not resort to violence to impose their convictions." - "And once religion has become a science, like chemistry, people will stop disputing about its facts: it is so because science cuts off disputes. It will be as the Lord said in the Qur’an: “for the scum disappears like froth cast out; while that which is for the good of mankind remains on the earth,” (13:17). "
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