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...also satirizes the Norwegians themselves, with their "booze-and-pork" culture and "progressive" family structures in which a single child can have multiple sets of parents. "I talk about sexuality and pornography, about desire and our bodies," Rehman says. Her tart social commentary tackles head-on the culture clash between Islam and the West. In July the Oslo daily Dagbladet listed Rehman and her Norwegian husband, author Dagfinn Norb?, among the country's most influential opinion shapers, saying the comedienne "has become one of the most important voices in our social debate." Rehman, 28, was born in Pakistan, but came...
...can’t do it without winning the hearts and minds,” Nye said. “You see this not as a clash of civilizations but a civil war within Islam...
Newhouse added that each candidate’s campaign pledge to cut the deficit in half over the next four years would clash with the need to increase Medicare spending to keep medical coverage at the present level...
...endemic to Islam and easily spill over into fanaticism. For others, Islamic terrorism is the most extreme expression of an age-old conflict between Islam and the West. In a 1990 essay, Princeton historian Bernard Lewis wrote that Muslim anger against the West "is no less than a clash of civilizations - the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both." The phrase "clash of civilizations," later popularized by Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington, is now regularly invoked by political analysts to explain images...
...WHAT'S A POTENTIAL STICKING POINT? Expect a clash over the wealth of Portland's parishes. Vlazny refuses, as have other bishops, to regard parish assets--including properties and most of the collection-plate take--as seizable for diocesan debts. Thus, while he states his denomination's worth at about $50 million, plaintiffs claim it is more than $300 million. Perris may have discretion to make that very important call...