God's Truth

"Our country's fundamentalism is no prettier than anyone else's," she says. "It's really peculiar that the super-fundamentalists in this country talk about fundamentalists in other countries as extremists. They're all alike, whether they're Jewish or Muslim or Christian. God has told them they're right and nobody else is right. It's so laughable, so pitiful."

From a profile of the poet Naomi Shihab Nye.