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I also want to thank the many people that have been spreading the word about Monday’s fast, and linking to our site. Google now counts hundreds of links to us, and dozens of people have even blogged about the Fast including: Faith In Public Life, Warped Galaxies, Darvish, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, The Lead, On Not Being a Sausage, Reclaiming The F Word, and especially the Black Jewish Experience who had this to say:

In Jewish, Muslim and indeed many faiths a fast is used to show importance and sincere mourning for our actions and sorrow. Nothing could be more important than raising awareness and spiritual importance for peace in Iraq.

October 8th take a day to set your intentions and soul on stopping the violence that is destroying our soldiers’ lives, taking too many Iraqis’ lives, and threatening our country’s future.

I do believe prayer/intentions/meditation, whatever way you get in touch with the everlasting spirit makes a difference in this earth.

Fasting will make those thoughts even more poignant. So please self-sacrifice for the day on behalf of all too many making the ultimate sacrifice. And tell as many people about it as possible.