Muslim You Tube Mystics

Poking around on You Tube I happened upon sites where Muslim spokesmen addressed the current anti-Mohammed-video violence. What I found were poets and mystics singing love songs to God and to the Seal of the prophets. I didn’t expect that. Quite beautiful. I was stirred and moved. From my perspective they didn’t exhaust, or even touch, the subject. They changed it. They changed the subject from justifying a barbaric response to demonstrating the most transcendent devotion. Face to face, one wouldn’t know what to say. All the best religious poetry does the same thing: avoids responding to the unanswerable accusations of the cruelty of God, and instead jingles its bracelets and flutters its eyelashes in the dance of love.