Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Today's Quote

 chidi, i agree w you 100% about spirituality. however, the conflicts  between people often use religious identity as a ground for mobilizing populations to attack others not simp;ly because they are different, but as a reason to rationalize the economic advantages. if we attackthem, we get their goods, their land, their women, their oil, their cities, etc., and to make it good, god defends us.... that's the reason.

 bush senior had to demonize hussein to mobilize americans to accept war.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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"Spirituality, for me, is a very personal thing. I know what happens when I go in the forest, not really to hunt, but just to be by myself and experience a kind of tranquility which I do not find in urban society and commune with nature—and that's my spirituality. It's an internal thing. The crime, the criminality begins when spirituality structures itself in a way in which it wants to control the secular entitlement and the secular rights of humanity. That is when religions break up. One of the goriest expressions of that has been the contest in Iraq where the Shiites and the Sunnis wait for the spiritual day of each other and slaughter one another because one side does not believe in the particularities of history and heritage of the other; and then they butcher one another on their own holidays. Go round the whole world. Go to India; the Sikhs, for instance, have their problems with the Muslims, with the Buddhists, etc., all over the place. Whereas you can just sit in your home or retire to your meditation room and actually drink your fill of spirituality just by an internal process"-Wole Soyinka (in a recent interview by TheNews Magazine)

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