InterFaith21

I agreed with Michael Moore (over at HanifOnMedia.com) regarding the serious culpability of Nicholas Kristof  (and a ton of  other folks, including many of you, dear readers) in our shameful pre-emptive invasion of a sovereign nation that had nothing to do with 9/11.

Moore:

We invaded Iraq because most Americans — including good liberals like Al Franken, Nicholas Kristof & Bill Keller of the New York Times, David Remnick of the New Yorker, the editors of the Atlantic and the New Republic, Harvey Weinstein, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and John Kerry — wanted to.

I hope those of you who fit the bill have paused to make your peace since then with the innumerable dead, maimed and displaced men and women of our armed services — not to mention innocent Iraqis.

In that same spirit, I also appreciate Kristof’s “Message to Muslims: I’m Sorry.”

Says Kristof:

The venom on the airwaves, equating Muslims with terrorists, should embarrass us more than you…I apologize to Muslims for another reason. This isn’t about them, but about us. I want to defend Muslims from intolerance, but I also want to defend America against extremists engineering a spasm of religious hatred…I’m sickened when I hear such gentle souls lumped in with Qaeda terrorists, and when I hear the faith they hold sacred excoriated and mocked. To them and to others smeared, I apologize.

Speaking only for myself, and speaking to others of you who have expressed to me or who share the same or similar sentiments: Thanks.

— C.B. Hanif