"Sufi poet, mystic and a planetary healer
BY MATEIN KHALID
18 February 2006
THE clash of civilisation has now turned ghoulish. An imbecilic newspaper cartoon in Copenhagen triggered riots in Pakistan, gutted Danish embassies in Beirut and Damascus, deepened the chasm between the West and the Islamic world, inspired geopolitical accusations in the White House and the Shia seminaries of Qom.
Amid this surreal nightmare, the miasma of evil and suspicion that now seems to have swept this world, I seek refuge in the transcendent poetry of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, the Sufi mystic poet who is probably the most sympathetic Muslim figure in the West, a spiritual New Age icon."
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