my kansas city congressman is just the best. read this excerpt from his newsletter:

I am currently leading a delegation of six other ministers to Turkey to promote interfaith relations. This, my friends, is certainly a time when it is needed.
We have spent time talking to Muslim leaders here, in an attempt to build some trust and understanding at a time when there is far too little of both.
We are learning so much on this trip. Talking, touring and praying with the people and clerics of Turkey. My wife Dianne is trying to adjust to covering her head when we worship in Mosques.
I will say that I thought it could not be hotter than it was when we left Kansas City. I was wrong. We had to cancel one of our stops because the temperature had reached 115 degrees.
I may not return next week rested, but I know I will return refreshed and rejuvenated in my belief that people, regardless of their faith, are by their very nature good and decent. The world should celebrate the many things that unite us instead of concentrating on the very few differences that divide us.

(emphasis mine)