(Community Matters) . . . and yesterday I was riding in a cab with an Iraqi driver. We laughed – it was his first day as a cab driver in Sydney and he was driving around an American.
He moved to Australia 8 years ago (a different city). His family still lives in Iraq; he was home just a few months ago. Since coming to Australia, he has learned to embrace people of different faiths. Said he grew up this way but it’s so much more prevalent here. In his home neighborhood, there were always Christians among them. The Muslims would attend their neighbors’ Christian celebrations and vice versa. This last visit home, he noticed the Christians were gone. His father told him they’d all moved or had been killed.
I asked about life since the war started – he says it’s worse. Today, when a family member goes to the grocery, it might be the last time you see them. Under Sadaam, there weren’t bombings and random killings.
We both agreed those cloaking themselves in fanatical religious beliefs were usually after power and using religion as a tool against people. Whether Christian, Muslim or Jewish, religious wars are usually to promote the power and political interests of hypocrites.
Community Matters 
A very poignant post for the holidays.
PS… This post makes me disagree with your post on Lowe’s. I think they are chicken to have pulled their ads. Brave to go there; chicken to back down. Maybe that’s not worth boycotting them, but it’s also not worth supporting them.