religious activism, Islam style

I have a teeny, tiny, nearly-insignificant bit of new confidence that humanity might be worth saving.

I heard about the violence in Egypt as Muslims killed the Christians there in bombings.  What I did not hear on the news is how other Muslims came to the aid of those same Christians, even acting as human shields to protect them against more violence.  The Muslims surrounded the Christian churches during their holiday mass ceremony, hoping to discourage additional bombing attempts.

“I know it might not be safe, yet it’s either we live together, or we die together, we are all Egyptians,” Cherine Mohamed, a 50 year old house wife said.
- http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/95/3216/Egypt/Attack-on-Egypt-Copts/Egypt-Muslims-to-act-as-human-shields-at-Coptic-Ch.aspx

Life is easy to destroy, but hard to preserve.  It's about time we started seeing an occasional story about religion being used to inspire protective urges rather than to inspire murder and subjugation.  On the whole, I still tend to think that humanity would be better off without any religion at all.  Since it seems we have to have it in our psychology, however, then it might as well have some features that do us some good.

local: items free to good home

I have some things that I'd like to get rid of. Speak up if you know someone who wants them.

They're free for anyone who can put them to use. Just come by to pick them up sometime.  All items are in fair-to-good condition.

1. black plastic cd storage tower (x 2)
2. guitar, 6-string acoustic
3. Sign Language tutorial books (x 6) and videos (vhs x 3)
4. c++ programming books (x 3)
5. electric self-cleaning cat box (gently used)
6. gym bag, small

If I don't get any takers here among my readers (and the people they know), then I'll post these items to Freecycle.org for the general community.