He is safe now, a professor of clinical psychology
at a university in the West informed at an early age
that as a Jew in Lebanon his safety was a tenuous
affair, but free now to speak of the pathogenic
disease of infectious hatred triumphing over critical
thought and reality, robbing minds of the capacity
of logic, endowing them with the fuel of deeply
viral ethnic, tribal, sectarian antipathies streaming
them toward a lifetime of psychoses befitting
psychopaths, as he describes Middle East conflicts
as 'the standard by which the butchery of all
other civil wars is gauged'. But there in those vile
intemperate given-to-violence communities
courage also lives as when one steeped deep since
childhood in hatred of Jews, taught to fear and
to scorn them, encouraged to commit deadly
violence, now looks back and wonders why as he
forges friendships among them. And another
writing publicly in Arabic questioning why it is
Islam has its holy sites as does Christianity yet
is the City of David, al Quds disputed as the City
of Jews, the site holding the most sacred symbol
of Judaism's lost Temples. These critical thinkers
applying the wisdom of common sense and careful
thought to overturn millennia of Koranic spite upon
a people unwilling to bow to any god but their
own, in so doing inviting a fatwah on their heads.
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