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...Legacy of Abraham...
...Because Muslims, Christians and Jews all claim Abraham as their father, are Americans supposed to forget about Sept. 11?" Bob Franz Placentia, Calif...
...American Muslim, I greatly appreciated your article on Abraham [RELIGION, Sept. 30]. It was thought provoking and opened my eyes to connections among the three great faiths. It was nice to read something that didn't vilify Islam and the Muslim tradition. Articles like this make me feel there are reasonable, objective people out there who are willing to accept their differences in order to understand the commonalities. Faiz Faseehuddin Nashville, Tenn...
...embarrassing open secret that, contrary to his hallowed position in the secular sainthood of freedom, Abraham Lincoln was never a particularly passionate abolitionist. But he freed the slaves, and regardless of his real reasons for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, aren’t we glad he did? Likewise, many scholars maintain that knowledge of Hitler’s escalating program of genocide in Europe had very little to do with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s decision to enter World War II on that continent. Do we care in the slightest that he might have been more concerned with getting...
...that he backed Bush's recent U.N. speech condemning the Iraqi leader. In fact, the insurrection Chavez faced last spring--which he frequently likens to a terrorist attack--has made him more supportive, he says, of the war on terrorism. "I revere the U.S. as the nation of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King," he says now. "I want Americans to know that our revolution is about their ideals." For its part, the Bush Administration is now warning trigger-happy Venezuelan generals that it won't recognize any unconstitutional overthrow of Chavez. The White House "wouldn't be doing that...