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Testimonies: How the Internet can bring friendship across hostile borders

I just want to as to Josh Wilde's amazing story. Here in America we're being told that we may have to attack Iran to stop it from being "An Axis of Evil." If we were to attack there would almost certainly be many civilian casualties. I have been learning other languages on a website called live mocha. I have made a friend there who lives in Tehran. He has an advertizing company. His wife, Sara, is a lawyer. Sometimes he takes off work early to watch their son Daniel while his wife works. They picnic in the park on holidays.

This is hardly the "Axis of Evil." On TV we see only men in turbans waving AK 47s, and burning American flags. We never see Sara in court, Daniel in school, or my friend in a coffe shop making a deal to put up billboards, or print funny bumperstickers.

I now speak out against America's war like ways because I would have to watch the evening news and wonder "Is that Sara's body?" "Was Daniel one of the children who died in the bomb attack?"

The internet has taught me that we are all just people trying to get by and I don't really need anything in life that would make it worth killing children in Iran. Not Daniel. Not anyone's children.

Peace,
Salam,
Jie Shri Mataji,
Khoda Hafez,
Shalom,

JD

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