[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Lament with me in the wake of ISIS terror

Fri Nov 20 10:20:30 EST 2015

Sojourners' comments ( the forwarded email below) are much appreciated
especially at times when the media and Congress seem to have lost all
common sense.

I was watching cspan last night. A senate committee was grilling a panel
about Syrian refugees and the secutity threat -- the committee was hell
bent on creating ways to stop all refugees from coming or creating a huge
system to vet and track any that do come. Sheesh.

one of the panelists, a woman who works with refugees, tried to tell the
senators that already people are contacting refugee centers across the
country demanding to know the adresses of Syrian refugees in their area.
Creepy. Creepy. Creepy. These people want a map, much like the map of
registered sex offenders.

Refugees have suffered more than their share of human suffering. The media,
congress, and some people have gone over the edge.
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From: "Jim Wallis" <sojourners at sojo.net>
Date: Nov 19, 2015 5:05 PM
Subject: Lament with me in the wake of ISIS terror
To: "Karen Medina" <kmedina67 at gmail.com>

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In the Wake of ISIS Terror: Mourning, Lament, Discernment
by Jim Wallis  <http://go.sojo.net/site/R?i=JePmteDoVYK9SMAKZkbZ0A>

If we count up the number of people killed or wounded in the ISIS Paris
slaughter last weekend, and add all their families and friends, the level
of human *mourning *is staggering. Then include the many other victims
murdered in Beirut just days before, or the legions of those raped and
killed in Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, Egypt and Turkey — who never
receive the same attention as Western victims — and we see human
devastation that is utterly evil.

>From a religious perspective, the hardest thing about confronting evil is
the painful human tendency to only see it in others, in our enemies, and
not see any on our side because of the blurred vision caused by the planks
in our own eyes, to paraphrase the gospels. In discussing ISIS, we should
clearly use the language of *sin, *the enormous sin of the ideological hate
of ISIS finding its victims all over the world.

But theologically, sin begets sin. So we cannot simply name sins of ISIS ad
nauseum without also *lamenting *the sins of the West that they use as
inexcusable justifications for horrific violence. Overcoming the growing
terrorism we face requires addressing the grievances rather than repeating
our missteps and mistakes.

To satisfy our thirsty oil economy, the West has literally created false
nations and consistently supported brutal oligarchs and allowed them to
crush their democratic critics – which gave rise to fundamentalist
extremism. The U.S. overturned a democratically elected government in Iran
and installed the brutal dictatorship of the Shah, which gave rise the
Islamic regime that we now so hate. (See how many of your friends and
neighbors even know the name Mohammad Mosaddegh, the Iranian president we
overthrew because of oil.)

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