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...sticking fingers in our ears and chanting "Islam means peace" to drown out the negative noise from our holy book. Far better to own up to it. Not erase or revise, just recognize it and thereby join moderate Jews and Christians in confessing "sins of Scripture," as an American bishop says about the Bible. In doing so, Muslims would show a thoughtful side that builds trust with the wider communities of the West...
...King's hometown, was the scene of a ten-day celebration. Tourists flocked to view King's boyhood home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church where he served as pastor with his father, and the crypt that holds his body. The list of prominent visitors was to include South Africa's Bishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Edward Kennedy and Vice President George Bush. "I wish Dr. King were here," gushed nine-year-old Akelia Cobb, excited by all the commotion. "Boy, I'd get his autograph twice...
...popular teacher who normally forgoes clerical garb, Curran was fired by Catholic University's bishop-dominated board in 1967 because of his liberal views, but was reinstated following a campus-wide faculty and student strike. After Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the traditional ban on artificial birth control in a 1968 encyclical, Curran rallied 600 Catholic academics and church professionals to endorse a statement that couples were justified in following their own conscience...
...addition, Europeans have a centuries-old proximity to, and affinity for, the Arab world that the U.S. not only does not share but too often fails to understand. Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger, the Arch-bishop of Paris, points out that the French have a "fascination and aversion" toward the Arabs. "It goes back even to Poitiers, which, as every French schoolboy learns, was where Charles Martel stopped the Arab conquest of Europe in 732." Lustiger could have added that Europeans also have a way of becoming mired in their own history to the point of paralysis...
...Nobel laureate and outspoken critic of the government's policies: Blacks must "be aware of the small print. Some form of influx control may be brought in through the back door." Tutu's concerns were further aggravated later in the week when security officials detained his antiapartheid colleague Bishop Sigisbert Ndwandwe, a black, charging him with inciting public violence...