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...Religion is accorded far more respect in the public realm in the U.S. than in Europe. Think about it. We are in the midst of a rancorous debate over immigration in which many Americans reject "hyphenated identities" like Mexican-American as a threat to national cohesion. Yet while evangelical Christian, Catholic and Jewish Americans may disagree vehemently among themselves, the religious basis of their identity is not seriously questioned by anyone. If Muslim Americans are not so readily accepted today, it is not because they are believers. In Europe, by contrast, Muslims are resented and marginalized precisely because their religion...
Sources: N.Y. Times; Reuters; CBS News; Christian Science Monitor; Daily Telegraph; Washington Post...
When Jill Carroll - a freelance reporter working for the Christian Science Monitor in Iraq - was kidnapped by a group calling themselves the Revenge Brigade Jan. 7, she was taken to a safe house where she sat in a room with two couches and an overstuffed velvet chair, and watched Oprah on satellite television with her guard. For the following 82 days of captivity, Carroll, then 28, was moved to six separate safe houses. She says she was treated well: apart from being kept in confined spaces and denied exercise, she was well fed and allowed to bathe. She also bore...
...announcement comes just days before the Christian Science Monitor begins publishing Carroll's 11-part chronicle of her abduction and detention - the first installment will be available on the paper's website Sunday night. With the help of Monitor senior writer Peter Grier, who offers a contextual narrative of what was happening in Boston, Washington and Baghdad while she was shuffled from safe house to safe house, Carroll recounts the hardship and, often, the irony of her captivity: "How do you channel-surf with the mujahedeen?" she writes at one point. Dave Cook, the Monitor?s D.C. bureau chief...
...According to Cook, the Christian Science Monitor had known about the arrests for several weeks, but wanted to corroborate the specifics before going public with the story. In a statement also released Wednesday, Monitor editor Richard Bergenheim expressed gratitude for the military's efforts and warned that "the daily threat of kidnapping remains acute for all." Carroll meanwhile has been editing stories as a full-time Monitor employee since the beginning of July, and continues to refuse requests to write books, give interviews or make speeches. "I don't want to be rich, I don't want to be famous...