Messages from the Muslim World

Dear friend,

My name is Arash and I am 12 years old. I am in love with American movies and Tom Cruise is my favorite movie star.

I want to come to America and study there and talk to Tom Cruise.

I have started to study English. I want to learn English to make friends in America. We have war in Afghanistan now, but I hope the war ends soon.

I send you my heartedly greetings to all of the American kids.

I love you all
Arash
Afghanistan




To all Americans,

I don’t say there is distance between followers of different religions but I do admit that there are misconceptions that have developed as a result of lack of understanding of each other.

We are all the same. We are all people of this world, let’s get together and make this world beautiful.

The only way out of the current crisis is unity of all of the human being from all over the world. Let’s opt for this ladies and gentlemen.

Abdullah
Afghanistan




I have not been able to figure out why there is distance between people of different religions. I believe there are a few people who orchestrate this for their personal or political interests.

When I sit down with foreigners (followers of other religions), I don’t find anything that would make us distant. We drink and eat together and respect each other.

I believe people have forgotten the very nature and objective of religion, which is to create love, encourage toward coexistence and eliminate hatred. We have got to go back to our religious books and study them with a critical thinking, then we will find the truth about religions.


Hamed
Kabul, Afghanistan




Humanity is above all,

why would the human race think of differences? As we all are going and facing the same destiny. Black, white, Muslim, Jew, Christian are all brothers.

Blood is shed, houses destroyed, people homeless, all this because of wrong ambitions.

I believe in equity, in humanity and in justice.

Dialogue between civilizations, as a principle is the only way which would get us out of the current misunderstandings.


Regards
Parviz

August 12, 2010
Kabul, Afghanistan




God!

Create heat of love in our hearts, light of love in our eyes, words of love in our talks and signs of love in our actions.

Lord! Illuminate the light of love, peace, and reconciliation in our hearts, remove pain and sorrow from our hearts and kills hatred and violence in our souls so that we live with love and coexistence.


Mohammad Jan
Afghanistan




By Najib, Kabul, Afghanistan­­­_________________

Dear American Brothers and Sisters,

I have always believed that nothing can bind us stronger than the fact that we are all human beings with the same physical structure, the same organs, and the same body functions. I have got the experience myself. Some of my best friends are Christians, Jews, and atheists.

I used to ask myself sometimes, how come they became my best friends while I am a Muslim and they are followers of other religions or even no religion. I came to the realization and conclusion that the first value that connects us all is finding of the same human virtues that most of us are after. We see that we look the same way, we think the same way, and most of us suffer from the same problems since we live in the same world, and we are after the same objectives. Having the above facts in mind, there can be nothing that could separate us along other lines and we will not allow anyone to separate us.

When people ask me about my religion I tell them that I am a human being and I tell him/her that you are a human being too. In my experience, that works very well, what we need to do is to separate religion from our identity and replace it with the word human being. That will alleviate this problem by a large extent. The issue is that we were born human being rather than Jewish, Christian, or Muslim and we need to remain human beings.


Hashem
Afghanistan



We all should know and understand that religions are only for God; therefore, no one has the right to judge anybody. The message of all religions is peace, tranquility, and prosperity. That is what we all should focus on. Let us think about peace and how to approach it for the sake and the benefit of humanity. We should also understand that terrorism does not have a faith. Violence, injustice, and sometimes unfair politics promote the bizarre thinking. We as people should all stand up and say no for hatred and unfair judgments for the sake of our world and for better life for the new generations.

Sincerely,
Abdulaziz
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
9/11/2010





I am always impressed by such (a) project that make(s) our lives happier in this world.
--Omar E.
Tripoli/Libya



At first i say hello to my dear brothers and siters from all beleifs and ideologies....our world today suffers many problems and misunderstandings, and one of the most contravercial and most critical issues is Islam..muslim world is witnessing one of the most drastic campaigns against it, whether it was the severe strikes from people like Osama Ben Ladin and i am truly sorry for describing him as a human being, or from the media which i call "counter-islam" media, these are days where most of world can't defferentiate between reality and the illusion that some of the media enterprises have been feeding them all those years, but yet out of a million devils an angel rises, that someone who is willing to sacrifice their own time to help causes such as ours, causes that so many people may consider as the underdog but yet those angels grow more and more persisstant and i write double s because the second s stands for the stress they endure every single day to pump the blood into our cause and keep it alive....i don't want to keep you any longer than i already did but i just want to say that people like you Rebecca are the ones who makes those millions of muslims around the world hang on for another day, thank Allah for your existance and i wish that he keeps you long enough in this world for people to learn some thing from you.
Truly yours
C.J
Libya