inner girl: July 7th 2006

inner girl: "We must say, and keep saying to ourselves, that these men will not make us less human. Though they claimed to be acting on behalf of their Muslim brothers and sisters in Iraq and elsewhere, their real goal was to engage us in hate - to connect with us by getting us to hate them and what they stood for as much as they hated us. Creating a dialogue of despair, they hoped to open the way for retribution, revenge and counter revenge - a pain filled chaos from which those they represented sought to emerge victorious as our belief in ourselves was destroyed. "