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...sticks to Islam as a spiritual belief," she continues. "But I reject the Koran when it says girls must stay home and that it is right to beat women if they disobey their husbands. We have been led to believe that we have to preserve cultural practices that clash with Western norms." To change that, Hirsi Ali would scrap the subsidies given to Muslim organizations in the Netherlands, ban Islamic schools and include empowerment classes in the compulsory integration courses that all immigrants must follow. "Living in the Netherlands has made it possible for me to realize that...
...summit. Turkey has made most of the legislative changes required by the E.U. - albeit with some significant loopholes - and its new Islamist government has pledged itself to European ideals of pluralism and tolerance. If Europe wishes to take a major step toward embracing its Muslims - and preempting the clash of civilizations that al-Qaeda seeks - it will set the process in motion...
...CLASH OF STRATEGIES Inspections were barely under way last week when Bush pronounced them "not encouraging." Vice President Dick Cheney delivered a strong reminder that the U.S. was prepared to respond militarily to noncompliance. Day by day, Washington disparaged the process. After Iraq declares its arsenal, the White House and the Pentagon said, the regime must lead inspectors to the possible weapons sites and let them question everyone working there. Bush said disarmament, not inspections, was the goal and the burden was on Saddam to prove Iraq was defanged...
According to Johnson, his dismissal came after he fell into disfavor with the history department. The first clash occurred over the make-up of a post-Sept. 11 panel. Then Johnson had a series of run-ins with department chair Phillip F. Gallagher—over the search for a new professor, over the students Johnson admitted to his classes and generally over the way he conducted himself with colleagues...
...West's evident freedom and prosperity. "It was the power of example that made the difference," Mandelbaum says. "People believed what they noticed rather than what they were told." In the same vein, Mircea Geoana, Foreign Minister of Romania, believes the transformation of tyrannies comes not from a clash of ideologies but from countless decisions of the human heart. Democracy and freedom, Geoana said to me last week, are indeed "universal ideas," but he identified the key driver for change in Europe as the simple "desire of families to see their children lead a better life...