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...Towers of Babel What is the difference between Saudi Arabia banning churches with bell towers and Switzerland banning minarets [Dec. 14]? The Swiss are accused of discrimination, yet Saudi Arabia is not. Aren't these decisions a gift to extremism and intolerance? And why does the media condemn the Swiss but not mention the Saudi ban? Make up your minds: Which is more extreme, Islamic or Christian culture? Gerhard Heinzelmann Gravesend, England...
Towers of Babel What is the difference between Saudi Arabia banning churches with bell towers and Switzerland banning minarets [Dec. 14]? The Swiss are accused of discrimination, yet Saudi Arabia is not. Aren't these decisions a gift to extremism and intolerance? And why does the media condemn the Swiss but not mention the Saudi ban? Make up your minds: Which is more extreme, Islamic or Christian culture? Gerhard Heinzelmann, GRAVESEND, ENGLAND...
...Somalis in Denmark are shocked at what happened and strongly condemn it. They see it as the work of one man and don't understand how he could do a thing like that - someone who grew up in Denmark," says Abdirashid N. Artan, a social worker and chairman of the Somali Youth & Development Network, an organization that works with troubled young Somalis in Copenhagen, the Danish capital. (See the top 10 cartoons...
...charismatic, mainstream electricity generated by his contemporary Billy Graham. There was always the reek of snake oil to Roberts' piety, hence his long attempt at seeking respectability: joining the United Methodist Church in the late 1960s and giving up the rootlessness of his evangelism. The Methodists, however, would later condemn his methods. For a while, his hospital and academic empire helped make him a pillar of Tulsa society. But the kind of faith he espoused was made of constant appeals to his audience to prove it to him - at $100 or less a pop. His old-time religion crumbled because...
...easy to rush to condemn projects like these that seem counterintuitive to the very logic of the CDM. But the planet's atmosphere is perfectly happy with the tradeoff, says Derwent of the IETA, "just as much as it would be happy with the reduction of CO2 over a long period by the adoption of wind power in the place of coal." What matters is the absolute reduction in carbon emissions, regardless of the source, he says. "That's what markets do, they find the cheapest, most cost-efficient way of producing whatever it is that's demanded," says Derwent...