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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Through the eyes of children
Quan, I was able to watch the rerun of the Jenning's program this morning and I watched for Bob Woodruff's comments and you were absolutely right; however, what struck me was that there was a journalist from somewhere in the Middle East who questionned what he said right there on the spot and I realized again that what I love most about being an American is that very fact - that someone would be in that room who could say immediately "how can he say that the majority of the mosques teach children this kind of hatred?" Karen -----Original Message----- From: Assessment Reform Network Mailing List [mailto:ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU]On Behalf Of Quan, Cao Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 9:02 AM To: ARN-L@LISTS.CUA.EDU Subject: Through the eyes of children Mr. Jennings: Great program this morning with the children. It gives all of us renewed hope throughout the country to see the wondrous brilliance and care of our young people. They have been able to parse through what the adult world feeds them and discriminate between truth and spin. The questions that jumped out at me as I watch the direction of your inquiry and the interaction of your audience is the questioning of God for safety and meaning, and the efforts to understand rather than simply accept preconceived notions of what truth is. Finally, several of your younger audience members addressed the issue of teaching tolerance vs. hatred. They clearly saw through the misunderstandings of adults what life means. Life means a whole lot more than taking revenge, and getting even. Life means a whole lot more than annihilating other people, because neither the Koran, nor the Bible justify the taking of life. In the final outcome, how can Bob Woodruff say that "their culture" systematically teaches hatred, when the first reaction out of our Commander-in-chief is a promise to hunt people down and exact revenge? How can we say "they" teach hatred when religious men like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell blame these incidents on gays, abortionists and the ACLU? May be the terrorists have indeed succeeded in blowing up more than two tall buildings. They have succeeded in showing the cracks in our system, and the ineptitude of our leaders. Your program this morning gives us hope in the most serendipitous way. Through the tears of our children, and the arms of their parents, we can see the faith and sense of country of a younger generation, and the renewed energy and enthousiasm of my generation, yours, and our parents' in the reality that we are a part of a very small world and a very young civilization. May be the children have somehow taught us something that our political leaders and men of cloth have failed to: no matter the harm done unto us, no matter the destruction, no matter the pain, no matter the grief, we will not hate. Ultimately, that is the American spirit. Quan Cao 19910 Villa Lante Place Boca Raton, Florida 33434 (561) 482-5237 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU.
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