SENDING OF AN OPEN LETTER

To: The Newly elected President of the USA, President Barack Obama, and distributed in translation to Al-Qaeda;

From: The New World Foundation for Interfaith, www.realworldnewworld.com with entire letter at www.scohen305.blogspot.com

Concerning: Steps for America and Al-Qaeda to win the war together.


PREFACE AND PREMISE

The war with Al-Qaeda is not war in the usual or conventional sense. It is an indeterminate long term war which cannot be won with bombs and bullets by either side.

Winning the war with Al-Qaeda involves change of mind-set and behavior from within the person(s) on both sides, as well as significant social-environmental changes.

The war with Al-Qaeda is not only a war between foreign enemies. It is also a war within us; individually and collectively. It is war for the human mind, heart, and spirit: Who shall we be or become? What should we do with our life? What does (our) life mean to us: Where did we come from? Where are we going to? What are we a part of?

It is with the above preface and premise that we begin our steps toward winning the war with Al-Qaeda. How America and Al-Qaeda can both win the war together.


STEP 1

We the people of America begin anew the war with Al-Qaeda by SELF examination – awareness – analysis - evaluation – criticism – soul searching – and confession.

We the people of America, being human too, are not perfect. We are capable of conflicting and betraying our own best values. We are not holier than you. There are ways in which you are holier, braver, more committed and more truthful than us. We can learn from you and perhaps you can learn from us.

We have invested our soul in the values of risk taking plus greed leading over and over again to human exploitation and corruption. We have been too rigid to change our evil ways. We have gained the world, and began losing our soul.

We have associated with exploitive and repressive regimes, including a fellowship with Saddam Hussein when it suited our own purposes.

We have associated with Arab nations for their oil, and Arab leaders have associated with us for our money and high technology.

This resulted in conflict with Islamic cultural core values: Islamic meaning and way of life, Islamic identity, Islamic rootedness, Islamic belonging in the universe, Islamic purpose for living, Islamic venues of self-expression, and Islamic directional fulfillment for the Muslim life. This resulted in Muslim culture shock, the Muslim 9/11 attack on America and the American retaliatory attack upon Afghanistan and Iraq.

We did not mean to explode your Muslim life. It was an unseen by product of what seemed to us at that time to be a normal international economic exchange.


STEP 2

After self examination and confession, we have changed our mind-set and our behavior.

We are the new reborn Americans.

We no longer speak of “Foreign Nations,” “Foreign Policy,” “Foreign Aid,” or “Foreign Oil.”

We believe the oil of the earth, like the sun and the wind and the water and the natural gas and the electricity and the coal and the atoms and the crops and the human discoveries and technologies and the arts and the sciences and the traditional religions belong to all the people of the earth.

We believe that the wealth of the world should be shared by all people of the world.

In October 2008 we witnessed governments of the industrialized nations coming together and acting in concert to save the global economy from disaster.

We believe in building a new world community with a common international electronic currency system and a common international taxation policy.

We believe in eradicating poverty, controlling disasters, conquering illness, creating opportunities for positive self-determination and constructive self-improvement of all kinds. This is good for everyone.

The Koran forbids the killing of innocent human life. When Muhammad The Prophet of Islam had difficulties with the Meccan authorities, he did not set them on fire. He did not set himself on fire. Muhammad did not choose war with the Meccan authorities.

Muhammad left Mecca and established the first Muslim community in Medina.

We ask you to follow Muhammad The Prophet of Islam and his Koran.

There is a difference between jihad suicide and jihad murder. You have the right to sacrifice your own life. You do not have the right under the Koran to take the innocent lives of others.

We want to forgive you as we want you to forgive us.

We ask you to turn away from and give up war as a way of life. We ask you to participate with us as equal partners in the creation of a new world community. Begin constructive leadership roles in your own nations and Muslim communities.

We promise to do our very best to create opportunities for this actualization.



Dear President Barack Obama:

Try distributing this letter in Afghanistan and Pakistan to Islamic Mosques, religious schools, mass media, and (Instead of bombs) thrown from airplanes. It’s cost effective.