Dear GL,

When you fight your enemy or the one you term evil by employing methods of hatred
and violence, then you are part of the hatred and violence of your enemy itself,
despite the rightness of your position in your own mind.

If all the people in the world who are against terrorism, war and injustice were to
shift their perspective to supporting and working for peaceful solutions, then
terrorism, war and injustice would be eleminated more effectively, passing it over
from one generation to another.

For every one dollar we spend on peace, we spend two thousand on war.
On the entire planet we spend approximately twenty five million dollars every
minute on the bussiness of war and upgrading our capacity for killing each other,
while in the same minute, and ever minute of the day, approximately fifty children
die of starvation, especially in our African continent.

It is as if every ten minutes a Boeing 747 loaded with children were to crash,
killing all of the passengers. 
We are all part of the problem as long as we continue advocating  hatred and violence.
Knowing the person that you are, and understanding your purpose here
on earth for this short period of time and work towards empowerment in spite of what
you may see so many others doing. 

Engaging ourselves into hatred and violence means that we are passing over these
characters to the next generation. I think it is high time that we Africans start using 
our intellects in a profound manner to find peaceful solutions to our problems.

Thanks for sharing!
SSJawara.

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