Ethics Newsline®

RE: “From a Dark Present, a Brighter Future,” Dec. 23, 2002.

Your piece on “Dark Present” is provocative. Your observations of the Pew [Global Attitudes Survey] results track with my own. Moreover, this is the world’s opportunity to bring Islamic culture into clearer relief for better appreciation. The contrasts between our culture and theirs can jolt us into a better awareness of common values and greater mutual respect for what’s constructive in both.

– Robin Widgery
Social Systems Research Institute, Flint, Michigan, U.S.A.