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Iraq is a furnace of pain and fear , the insurrection is becoming bloodier by the day , Lebanon 's people are under attack , Mubarak 's Egypt is a pit of oppression and poverty and Saudi Arabia is - and will remain - an iconoclastic and absolute monarchy . To pretend , out of politeness or fear , that my Buddhist interlocutor does not need to know about beliefs that are , so far as I can tell , both true and of vital importance to his eternal well-being would be a dramatic kind of moral failure : analogous to refusing the offer of help and correction to a person whose beliefs and practices appear to be leading him straight into dire physical danger . These rituals , such as , washing one 's hands over and over , the need to check things repeatedly , preoccupation with thoughts of violence and fear regarding harming others , spending long periods of time touching things or counting , etc ., may take hours a day , make sufferers miserable , and disable them for much of the business of everyday life . It is a story of cruelty and fear .