Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.
Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love. Viking, 2006.
This event and quotation is an interesting reversal of the 2004 Iraq war where the “Judeo-Christian” United States defeated a Muslim tyrant, freeing the Muslims of the country. In 636 the Muslim Armies attacked Syria which was under the oppressive yoke of the Byzantine Christian Emperor Heraclius. The Muslims won and freed the Christians and Jews. One difference was however that in 636, the Christians and Jews celebrated the Muslim victory as is described herein.
Munir was a strong advocate for civilian control over the military and as exposed many military atrocities and disappearances. He was poisoned on a Garuda Airlines flight to Holland where he was exposing more of the human rights violations of the Indonesian Military.
Muslims had engaged in violent demonstrations to insist on more Sharia law and the curtailment of behavior that the Muslim Mullahs determined to be contrary to Sharia and Islam. In Nigeria Muslim violence and intimidation had at the time already caused one of the Nigerian states to adopt Sharia instead of civil law. Many Muslims continued the violence in order to spread the adoption of Islamic law. In most counties, there were threats of law enforcement crackdowns to curtail the Muslim violence and attacks on Christians and other religions. In Nigeria however, the Christians under Akinola’s leadership made this not so subtle veiled threat to retaliate. It seems to have worked in the short run although the religious tensions remained very high and no one knew whether or not religious violence or even war would break out.
Elizabeth Gilbert is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat Pray Love which has sold over 12 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. The book was also made into a film of the same name in 2010.
