Taking a village

I never would've expected Tom Friedman to write these words three years ago. Some might say it shows how much things have changed since 9/11. Others might ask what took him so long.

"[T]he greatest restraint on human behavior is never a policeman or a border guard. The greatest restraint on human behavior is what a culture and a religion deem shameful. It is what the village and its religious and political elders say is wrong or not allowed.

...The double-decker buses of London and the subways of Paris, as well as the covered markets of Riyadh, Bali and Cairo, will never be secure as long as the Muslim village and elders do not take on, delegitimize, condemn and isolate the extremists in their midst."



FMFM: John Lewis' Improvised Meditations & Excursions (I could listen to that sound all day) and Sly Stone's Riot and Fresh