South-Central Asia

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Was Gandhi a Gandhian? Was Buddha a Buddhist? Was Christ a Christian?

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We come into conflicts as partners of local peacemakers, hoping to keep them alive long enough to do their work.

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Gandhi has done more than any other person in history to reveal that social problems can be solved without methods of violence.

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One may reject sainthood as a reactionary ideal, but compared with the other leading political figures of our time, how clean a smell he has managed to leave behind!

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We can learn from suffering — if we are truly going to change the world, we probably can’t avoid it — but let’s not venerate it.

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Anger isn’t evil. It’s not something to be ashamed of — be ashamed only of abusing anger.

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Also remember: “witch” burnings, a massacre by Mormon militia, Gandhi’s first campaign, Attica, the coup in Chile, and Biko.

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Shelby Knox undertakes a lonely struggle for real sex education, a gay-straight alliance, and a religiosity that rejects bigotry.

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Ziba Mir-Hosseini is senior research associate at the London Middle East Institute, School Of Advanced Study, and will be global visiting professor of law at New York University in the fall of 2006. A longer version of this piece appeared in Middle East Report Online, www.merip.org.

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