What we – Jews, Christians and Muslims – forget is that we are all of the Abrahamic faith, united in the same beginning and revering the same places. As a former detainee said, who recently returned from the Hajj (an Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca), ‘Constance, while I was there, we had time to read various books and I found out that Christians also have the story of Ibrahim (Abraham). When we went to the rock upon which Ibrahim was going to sacrifice his son, it is the same Ibrahim – the same rock – for you!’ I agreed, and explained to him, that yes, we are both from the Abrahamic tradition, as are the Jews who preceded us (That point may have caused a bit of a pause in our conversation, but our common connection is what will cause a greater pause, I believe, in the ever escalating battles for sacred land and sacred places.) We talked a bit about our common religious history. We discussed the frailty of our humanity and the hope, as he put it, that in this land (the United States) perhaps we can put the fighting and warring aside.