I kept getting letters yesterday about the Bibas family – emails, whatsapp, messages, even phone calls – all saying “No Words.”  No words meaning the experience is beyond words.  But I don’t want to blame it on ‘savagery’ or ‘indoctrination’ – I want to start talking about how this should not happen again.  How can we all learn to prevent the idea of cold-blooded murder being sanctified?  How do we learn to sanctify all human life? Ramadan is coming up this weekend – how can we help make it a holy holiday for all human beings?  I don’t mean it has to be holy in the sense of the world following islam.  I mean it has to be holy in the sense of all of us respecting each other’s sanctity.  

I don’t want more words, but actions.  I want people to learn and discuss the fact that when we forgot that people are people we stop becoming people ourselves.