Dear All,
upon first reading of this, I felt huge relief to read something that
went to the core of things- people uniting and recognising their common
ground, rather than staying blind due to conscience &/or other forces, ssa
& following all the propaganda and stories told to keep us apart, fighting
one
another, etc. Just yesterday I said to a friend: I felt within days of 911
how my natural inclination to mourn was constantly put on hold. My anger
at how our government took the events as a reason to hate- and fear-
monger and make wars got in the way of my sadness- too much to
mourn, so I could feel myself having a kind of heart short-circuit-
my feeling right away, the morning of the attacks, was that I was
terribly sad that so many people were dying such terrible deaths, terribly
sad and frightened not knowing exactly what was going on, sad our country
was losing it's innocence in new ways, and more than fear, more than
anything,
I was simply sad. I also felt right away how sad it was and is that the
people
who attacked 'us' had to go that far to have their grievances heard-
legitimate
ones (how many most unfair if not murderous regimes has our country backed
in the name of liberty and freedom and democracy) - and I saw how our
government not only ignored those legitimate grievances and turned them into
reasons to make more hate, even more fear, etc etc etc-
And what is going on?
Some of it is I feel that again and again we see that so many people are
looking
for a mother and father in place of their own.
So maybe Moussaoui, whose father left he and his siblings when he was small,
found a father in the movement he followed. Maybe the people who truly
believe
George Bush & Cos lies simply have to believe, because the president is the
father to them and he says we are doing the right thing.
And we get up in the morning and it is raining, or the sun is shining, or
there's a
war or there is not, and each of us in our own way strives to find our true
core,
to follow organic laws of love and to honestly connect with others, live OUR
lives
and not those of others. It's very hard work at times and I wish you all the
best
with this journey we all have in common.
take care,
Libby
----- Original Message -----
From: "libby shapiro" <libbyshapiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:23 AM
Subject: [ConstellationTalk] A touching newspaper article
Dear All,emotional,
a touching article- take care,
Libby S.
Terrorist's mom gets hug
BY HELEN KENNEDY
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
As legal jousting continued over Zacarias Moussaoui's fate in
Washington, an extraordinary scene was taking place in White Plains - his
weeping mother was enfolded in a hug by the mother of a 9/11 victim.
"She's just a mom. And she's going though such horror now," said
Connie Taylor. "She's very humble and so, so sorry. As she was telling me
how sorry she was, the tears were just streaming. She was beside herself
with emotion. It was very moving."
Taylor's 37-year-old son, Brad, was last heard from making
scared calls home from the 89th floor of the World Trade Center. But shehas
only compassion for Aicha El Wafi.home
The hastily-organized meeting between Taylor and El Wafi took place
Sunday night at Memorial United Methodist Church just before her return
to France after spending a week at her son's trial in Virginia.according
As Taylor hugged the weeping woman, many of the three dozen others
there - a mix of peace activists and churchgoers - also began to cry. "She
really appreciated it. She was very skeptical and scared at first [about
coming to the meeting]," Taylor said.
Taylor said she feels that both women have lost their sons, but at
least she does not have the added pain of blaming hers for anything.
El Wafi told the church members that she is angry with her son - and
worried about another son who has joined a radical Islamist group in
Lebanon. "In these movements, they look for the little cracks to get into
people's minds and control them," she said through an interpreter,
to the Westchester Journal News.a
She told of her arranged marriage at 14 and raising four children on
cleaning woman's salary when her husband left. "She has no words toexplain
or express how terrible she feels," the interpreter said. "She never askedkind
for any of this. She would love to be just a mother."
Taylor, who opposes capital punishment, said she hopes Moussaoui is
not put to death. "I just feel that's not our call," she said. "Also, it's
strange to me that someone who really hasn't done anything can get this
of a sentence."
Originally published on March 14, 2006
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