It's the ones who smile at you while they're plotting in the dark that I've learned to worry about. Sometimes the monsters we fear aren't on the opposote side.

The battle is everywhere, all the time.

It's the ones who smile at you while they're plotting in the dark that I've learned to worry about. Sometimes the monsters we fear aren't on the opposite side" Esa Khattak

Patriotism, nationalism,' she said impatiently. 'Call it what you wish. Mine the only flag, mine the only way. All else is inferior, trample it underfoot. Despise it, detest it.

Nothing about multiculturalism antagonized Rachel. She liked all kinds of food, clothing, cultural customs, and music. The one thing that held her aloof was a fear of offending through ignorance.

Khattak asked himself the question whether it wasn't just Saint-Isidore, and whether there was a place in this world where any member of his community could live unencumbered and at peace.

....in Bosnia, mass rape was a policy of the war, systematically carried out, implicating neighbors, paramilitaries, soldiers.

The culture of power versus the power of culture,” he quoted. “One side always loses.

If one could be enraged by the loss of a favorite sports team, shouldn't his anger rise at the entrenchment of a scheme whereby no innocent person was safe, where self-determination was a crime punished by the vagaries of an opaque & impervious justice system?