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Article: The Saudi King's vision for interfaith dialogue.(OPINION)(King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia )
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- November 13, 2008
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Byline: Abdul Rahman H. Al-Saeed
New York -- History tells us that extremist ideologies surface, thrive, and proliferate in times of crisis. What ails us is much more than financial failure. It is a failure of moral values. Greed and violence have replaced generosity and compassion. The drift seems all encompassing. There is hardly a sitcom or drama on TV that does not (in varying degrees) appeal to some extreme in the moral universe.
The ground is thus more fertile for extremism and violence than it has ever been. And in this, we are together. We can no more speak of "us" versus "them." From Marshall McLuhan's global village to Thomas L. Friedman's flat ...