Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Religion brigades

Here's an idea on how to recruit motivated Satyagrahi for the United Nations. Ask various religions to contribute brigades.

We could have a Quaker brigade, a Mennonite brigade, a special Catholic order of monks and nuns, Buddhist monks and nuns, a Hindu "Gandhi Brigade", a Moslem "Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Brigade", a Humanist brigade, a Unitarian Universalist brigade, etc.

Volunteers in these brigades would not only be motivated by devotion to non-violence and world peace, but to their faiths and their pride in their religions.

1 comment:

Devin said...

For more on Ghaffar Khan, see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Abdul_Ghaffar_Khan

and on Islam and non-violence

http://www.forusa.org/fellowship/sept-oct-04/abu-nimer.html