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God calls us to love our neighbors as ourselves, to love the
stranger and the foreigner, to do nothing to others that would
be hateful to ourselves…
God calls us to feed the hungry, house the homeless, clothe the
naked, heal the earth, free the mind and spirit…

God calls us to reflect—to think, to feel, and to pray before we
act.

Yet we see that with no evidence of any imminent and urgent
danger, our government is rushing into a war that threatens to
bring death to many families—"our own" as well as those who
live in another country. A war that may engulf in rage and de-
struction an entire region of the world, one that all our tradi-
tions hold especially dear…
At this moment of great danger, we turn toward God… 31

Saddam Hussein's Darwinian Ideology
Saddam Hussein's Darwinian Ideology
From the first day of the Iraqi invasion, the stated main
goal was to remove Saddam's regime. Such a strategy, irre-
spective of the offered justifications, cannot be implemented
successfully by military means. The lives lost during the inva-

sion prove that this choice was wrong and that it should have
never been made. However, it is also clear that Saddam was a
dictator who was damaging to the region and whose regime
needed to be removed.
Saddam Hussein was just one of many people who, in the
1960s, were led astray by Arab socialism, which was sweeping

through the Arab world at that time. Arab socialism fused ex-
treme fascism with a fanatic third world leftist agenda sup-
ported by the Soviets. Stalinism, the Soviet version of commu-

A CALL FOR A TURKISH-ISLAMIC UNION