Seeking Sanity - Regarding Islam, NYC, Florida, America
by Krista Tippett, host
Following on Trent’s thoughtful post a few days ago, I share two pieces of helpful thinking that have crossed my desk. These refresh my spirit over media-generated confusion, false symbolism, fear, and vitriol. They are by a Jew and a Muslim, people who have been on our program in the past. I like to think that the ethos of discourse towards which they strive and we strive has its effect on the world, though what is distressing is so much noisier, and so distracting.
Yossi Klein Halevi has written an open letter to Imam Feisal in The New Republic. He opens up the “controversy” with a proposal that is provocative in the best sense of the word.
And for Eid al-Fitr, just past, Omid Safi opens a wide lens for viewing events of recent days. Click on every link in his Huffington Post article, if you have time, and find some hope.
