Here's what SANE and CIVILIZED people do when faced with challenges that could tear them apart

they find ways to come together and to keep the forces of darkness at bay...

The terrorist attack that narrowly failed to inflict mass slaughter at Glasgow airport on 30 June 2007 has had a singular impact on Scotland's public life. A universal sense of shock was followed by vigorous official efforts to build bridges to the country's approximately 60,000 Muslims. A week later, on 6 July, the cream of Scotland's establishment gathered in George Square in the Glasgow's heart to offer them protection and reassurance. The institutions represented included the ruling Scottish National Party (SNP), the police, the Church of Scotland, the trade unions, and the vocal anti-war movement. Nobody wondered aloud about the religious dimensions of the violent ideology that had evidently motivated the would-be massacre. Indeed, Scotland's health minister and SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon was explicit that "Islam is a religion of peace".

i find this one of the most heartening things i have read in a long, long time... THIS is the way genuine, well-intentioned human beings who are actually SERIOUS about living together in peace and harmony respond to potential catastrophe... but can't you just hear the nutcakes in this country commenting on this kind of reaching out...? i don't even want to speculate on the bile and viciousness that would greet such an effort...

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