Yesterday I spoke of reading comments made by Osama Bin Laden. Today I issue the following letter, in hopes of furthering the previously stated desire to share my belief that all faiths and religions proclaim love for God and love of others. We cannot be a global community if we are each separated by faith, religion, creed, color, gender, or orientation. We must be willing to understand one another. We must put aside our differences long enough to hear one another. Only then will we be a successful global community.
Mr. Bin Laden:
If you choose to speak with me, you’ll be speaking with a citizen of the world who happens to have a mailing address in the United States. I am not a member of any government or political organization. I am aware of the suffering, poverty, ignorance and helplessness that is going on in many parts of the world. I am also aware of the ignorance and selfishness that are running rampant in the industrialized, wealthy nations.
Ignorance is nothing more than a lack of knowledge, education and awareness. I would like to bring education, love, hope, faith and prosperity to each of the world’s 6.7 billion humans.
You are currently influencing the minds of millions of your followers with messages of hatred and death. You can be part of the solution if you’re still willing to use words of love and hope instead of airplanes and other weapons of destruction to get the world’s attention.
You have the potential and the ability to restore Islam as a faith of love and peacefulness in the minds of the ignorant who only associate it as one of hatred and killing. You have the potential to refocus your followers to assist in solving the problems that exist in the world with their brains and their love.
You have the potential to redeem yourself by helping to create answers to the problems that you so deeply care about.
If you’re still willing to talk, I am willing to listen. I will seek to understand. Let’s bring people together with love in God’s name and put an end to the ignorance and hatred which exist only in the absence of God’s Spirit.
Sincerely,
Bob
