Omar Khayyam at Peace Forum
Denis Halliday, former United Nations Assistant Secretary General who was the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq before he resigned, quoted Omar Khayyam, the 11th century Persian mathematician and astronomer widely known as a poet, in his closing remarks at the Perdana Peace Forum yesterday:
If you punish me for my evils, what difference does it make you?
Waging war to precipitate Peace? Food for thought beyond the Rubaiyat.
Rocky Bru has an entry on the Peace Forum today, titled: Mosques to Morgues.
Comments
The only mosque I have been to that promotes peace was the one at Bukit Aman and belongs to the Police. They made a sermon on mother's day and the imortance of a mother in the family.
Sermons made at other mosque was done to defend the status of imams and islam in the community and to rise up against anybody who dare to question the religion. I have stopped going to these places.
JEFF OOI says: And I remember my Malay elderly friends used to teach me: "Syurga kita di bawah telapak ibu."
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June 22, 2006 11:05 AM