Could be "terrorists" in there, right?
"Local outpouring of joy over ‘gentle revolution’" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff / February 12, 2011
After the resignation was announced midmorning, worshipers converged on the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the largest mosque in New England....
Imam Achmat Salie, who is from South Africa, turned the sermon into a quiet celebration of Egypt and a prayer for the future of all nations. He quoted John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech that praised Egyptians for saying kifaya — enough — to cruelty, poverty, unemployment, and oppression under Mubarak’s rule. He called them the “teachers of the Muslim world.’’
“It was a gentle revolution,’’ said Salie, standing at a podium as scores of worshipers sat rapt on prayer rugs in front of him. “We know that in Islam it is not the fittest that survive. It is the gentlest that survive.’’
The imam, and others, said the ouster of the regime should provoke some soul-searching among Western governments, including the United States, that supported him despite human rights abuses and corruption.
Nice thought, but....
“This is not only a challenge for the Egyptians, but a challenge for all Western nations... who value democracy, who value human rights... to have a revolution of their own values,’’ Salie added....
And lose control of the dumbed-down masses?
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