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...congressional campaign in Philadelphia's southern and western suburbs, of course, but it is dwarfed by the human drama. Sestak is a local boy made good, a graduate of Cardinal O'Hara High School in Springfield, Pa., who attended Annapolis and then spent 31 years in the Navy, including command of the U.S. naval battle group in the Persian Gulf during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2003. His opponent, the Republican incumbent Curt Weldon, is also a local boy made good, a classic Reagan Republican. He's a working-class kid, former volunteer fire chief and local...
...good professor might, he quoted a 14th [an error occurred while processing this directive] century Byzantine Emperor. But this Emperor was making a furious criticism of Islam: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Perhaps the 79-year-old Pontiff hoped his remarks at the German university would spark a pointed discussion of Christian-Muslim relations and the rise of faith-based terrorism - just in time for his Turkey trip. What they sparked instead...
...that a very old -- friend. He cited Manuel II Paleologus, the emperor of Byzantium from 1391 to 1425, who in a ?dialog? with ?an educated Persian? said: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.? Benedict then paraphrased Manuel's complaint using the explicit phrase ?forced conversion...
...Book" and the "infidels", he addresses his interlocutor with a startling brusqueness on the central question about the relationship between religion and violence in general, saying: "Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached". The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul. "God", he says...
...projects Zarqawi's wider group may have begun before he was killed as more immediately dangerous than a new partnership with al Qaeda. Just what kind of strings Zawahiri can pull in hiding probably don't compare to the reach Zarqawi and his group had - and may still command...