“The early Muslims who conquered half the world did not set up soapboxes in the town squares of Alexandria, Cordoba or Fez, in the hope that Christians would flock to them and hear their preaching. They did business with the Christians; and their nobility and integrity of conduct won the Christians over…”
“The best indication of what people will do with power is to look at what they did when they had it. For what we do tomorrow is inevitably bound up with what we did yesterday…”
” Du’as were the very breath of his life. It is with these du’as that every element of his life was consecrated; nothing profane remained. His life became a single unbroken act of worship…”
“To rubbish the former judge’s report on Gaza, Israel has dredged up his record in South Africa – while forgetting its own…”
“While the US and Britain slide towards oligarchy, the forced elections in Afghanistan and Iraq have brought no good…”
“…the shared story of Asia, Africa and Europe, for one, is replete with uninterrupted mutual exchange…”
So when spiritual realities are perceived in Joseph’s revelatory dream, that dream is more real than the events it foreshadows in the sense that it gives a truer picture of the nature underlying the events in this world…
“we must stop treating diversity as a hindrance, for it should be exactly the opposite. Rather, an ethics based on our common citizenship must be forged from a serious and profound engagement with the meaning of our common humanity…”
