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...leader of Sunni insurgent forces in Buhriz lives less than three miles from the home of the leading Shi'ite in the valley, Sheik Adnan Qudban Hamid. Few, a graduate of West Point's class of 2000, spent much of his previous time in the valley working to bolster Hamid. After Few's men left the valley for Baghdad three months ago, the increase in violence restricted Hamid to his compound, keeping him from traveling the roads at all. When Few returned to visit Hamid, the sheik embraced him. "I love you!" Hamid said in English. Few and Lieut. Colonel...
...have helped drive U.S. history. "The shining city on the hill"? That's Puritan leader John Winthrop quoting Matthew to describe his settlement's convenantal standing with God. In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln noted sadly that both sides in the Civil War "read the same Bible" to bolster their opposing claims. When Martin Luther King Jr. talked of "Justice rolling down like waters" in his "I Have a Dream" speech, he was consciously enlisting the Old Testament prophet Amos, who first spoke those words. The Bible provided the argot--and theological underpinnings--of women's suffrage and prison...
...Farouky might want to add a sixth point to her solid list of ways for Europe's diverse inhabitants to get along. Rather than try to bolster our Christian credentials in response to fears that Islamists are intent on colonizing Europe, we should institutionalize inclusiveness for people of all backgrounds throughout the region. But try telling that to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, is planning to revive the European Constitution underpinned with a Berlin Declaration claiming that Europe is based on Christian values. Fortunately a Europe-wide collaboration of Christians...
Such disparities, she added, reflect a tendency for universities to seek to bolster public image through the diversity of their applicant pool...
...genocide and Al Qaeda terrorism. Sen offers his most profound observation when he addresses current attempts to decrease inter-group tensions in countries like Britain, where immigrant groups have not been able to fully assimilate.According to Sen, when governments support moderate voices within religious factions, they “bolster and strengthen the voice of religious authorities while downgrading the importance of nonreligious institutions and movements.” This policy assumes that people prioritize religion above all else and therefore feeds the roots of discontent—even when the state intends to do the opposite.Sen...