Obama Has a Unique Opportunity to Help Heal Violent Rifts with Muslim World. By Fr. Paul Mayer, Huffington Post, December 28, 2008. "The new openness of the Muslim world to the election of America's first Black president with the middle name of Hussein [presents a] unique opportunity [for peaceful resolutions]... Ultimately, [the wars in Iran and Afghanistan] are inextricably connected to the central source of violence in the Middle East -- the four-decade long Israeli-Palestinian conflict... A more effective way of addressing violent jihad might be the pouring of the healing balm of nonviolent, intelligent reconstruction on these war torn and desperate societies. A set of policies based on principles of social and economic justice might help to create a moral context from which religious extremism and violence in Islam and in other faith traditions would be condemned... The victims [of these wars and] of Mumbai and 9/11 now summon Mr. Obama to the difficult but imperative tasks of withdrawal from Iraq and eventually Afghanistan and the principled support of a just Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Even initiating these courageous steps would send a powerful message to the world of Islam." Father Paul Mayer is a cofounder of CCC.
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