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  • A YOUNG MUSLIM AMERICAN COUPLE WHO NEVER SAW THEIR WEDDING PICTURES

    The couple from Chapel Hill never saw a photo,
    From their wedding,
    Because it just arrived,
    Upon their murder.
    So if you want young people to die,
    shot in the head, in a grave,
    keep yourselves polarized,
    keep fighting for your side.
    Keep up with proxy wars,
    And real wars.
    But if you have a tendency,
    Upon the death of the young,
    To feel a little sick,
    To see through sleepless eyes,
    Their love,
    As they gaze into each others’ eyes,
    For the last time,
    If their religion, if their skin tone,
    Matters not to you,
    Then show it,
    Every day, in every way,
    In your empathy and solidarity,
    With those who are different in your midst.
    There is no other way to build the world,
    And there never has been.…

  • Chinese President Calls for Building Harmonious World

    I found this fascinating in this little noticed speech. The Chinese president repeatedly used the words harmonious, common, mutual. Everything was about one integrated world operating together. We all know the problem with Chinese repression of the Tibetan people, and of their own best writers and journalists. The flip side of an emphasis on the positive idea of harmony is the negative reality of tyranny. The flip side of freedom is chaos and anarchy. Nevertheless, I think it is interesting that there is a kind of outgoing new emphasis in the rhetoric, a conscious decision to at least rhetorically move beyond the Wall of China. This is good, and it provides an opening to discuss the ethics of harmony and mutuality, especially in Confucian terms, which always requires MUTUAL respect between governors and the governed. I hope there is more open debate as time goes on with Chinese leaders in …

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