[via islamicate, emphasis mine]
Considering the London terror attacks:
1. It dawned on me, that as much as I talk about being Muslim and American, about the search for shared humanity, and today really brought home the point that even to me, subconsciously, there is a distinction – the internalization of being the “other?” – between a Muslim identity and other identities. And the bombings collapsed that division again.
2. However, Al-Qaeda, in their self-interested perception of the world have not only killed innocents, contrary to the revelation of the Qur'an, but they have moved the news spotlight on to their egotistical selves - further proof that they are not capable of dealing with a real jihad against their base selves. This is important, because regardless of what you think the G8 can accomplish, the fact that Tony Blair had climate change and poverty on the agenda was a monumental feat. Whatever the meeting itself accomplished, there was a renewed interest in those topics.
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