Two years ago and one day ago Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan was wantonly

shot in the head by a gunman of the Pakistani

Taliban. Today, she has been honored by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. She’s

sharing the 2014 peace prize with Indian … Kailash Satyarthi.

Irony abounds here. Malala’s world-widely famous at seventeen. Kailash, at sixty,

is less renowned. Kailash is an Indian Hindu. Malala is a Muslim, Pakistani.

Geographically speaking India and Pakistan are neighboring countries;

that notwithstanding, they are less than neighborly … politically.

These two nations, one predominantly Muslim, the other predominantly

Hindu, mirror the abstract spiritual schisms that so haunt humanity.

Would that more people begin to mirror these two laureates so recently

honored. No doubt, they’d agree: Abnegate nationality to exalt … humanity.

For the Big Three (a tongue-in-cheek characterization of the Muslims, Christians

and Jews), egocentric misinterpretation of our Scriptures,

Scriptures Abrahamic all, albeit sharing many the same personages and doctrines,

are screwing up for the spiritually … non-Big-Three-aligned … the Big Picture.

That being the case, perhaps the most hopeful harbingers of global solidarity

to arise from today’s prize announcements are the invitations, timely,

by prize winners Malala and Kailash to the political leaders of their countries;

to join them on the podium when they receive their Nobels … from the Committee.