C-SPAN broadcast an important event today.

The Congressional Muslim Staff Association hosted a panel discussion on the image of Muslims in the U.S. Participants discussed the controversy surrounding the Islamic Center near Ground Zero in New York City, among other topics. Speakers included James Zogby, who heads the Arab American Institute.

Panel members besides James Zogby were Salam El-Marayati of the Muslim Public Affairs Council and Dr. Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Esq. of KARAMAH – Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights,

If enough people could only listen to this broadcast and get control of their emotions, then the world would truly be a better place and the Al-Qaeda terrorists will have been defeated, for the moment.

One of the comments by James Zogby reminded me of a famous quote from Mark Twain,

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

If people could just let go for a moment of what they think they know for sure, then they might be able to learn something that really is so.