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...brewing conflict with Fatah will test Haniya?who, as it happens, drives an ancient Toyota. His elevation has been courtesy of Israel's success in killing or arresting earlier Hamas leaders. Friends and Hamas colleagues say Haniya is soft-spoken and a good listener. He is described as a man with few enemies, which makes him a rarity in the politics of the Middle East. Haniya and Abbas are said to like each other. But as Zai Abu Amar, a legislator with ties to Hamas, says: "This is Haniya's first job in politics?and it's as Prime Minister...
...mutual respect. Although the delirious arrogance and insolence of the West have long perturbed me, the violence and vehemence whipped up by my fellow Muslims have caused me many sleepless nights. While people generally don't take religious insults lightly, we have overreacted, intensifying the long and undying conflict between two faiths of similar origin. Those tensions do not bode well for world peace in the next generation, let alone in the immediate future. Sometimes I wonder whether humans really need religions. Perhaps what we need is a humane education. Ibrahim Musa Kuala Lumpur...
...four-year cease-fire. Your story recounted the amazement of former Johns Hopkins visiting scholar Dayan Jayatilleka as he witnessed soldiers' donating blood for Tamils in the days after the tsunami. He said, "It was a magical moment. Then it was gone." Despite such pessimism, Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict could still be prevented from returning to civil war if everyone would reject the hollow argument that the Sinhalese and Tamils are fundamentally and irreconcilably different. That false division was based on the idea that the two groups could not live under a single administration because neither cared to learn...
...persuade students of the strength of their ideas.”The protest and ensuing spat began last Wednesday when Federalist Society officers sent an e-mail to members announcing that the previously-public talk with Bybee had been cancelled “due to a scheduling conflict.” The Society had actually moved the event to a location that it disclosed only to its officers. But in an e-mail to The Crimson, Society President Matthew D. Cooper defended the wording of the e-mail, saying that once he and other officers learned...
...events unfolding in various Muslim countries following the undesirable and unnecessary publication of cartoons of the Prophet [Feb. 20]. That mess could have been avoided if there had been sensible restraint and mutual respect. People generally don't take religious insults lightly, but my fellow Muslims overreacted, intensifying the conflict between two similar faiths. Sometimes I wonder whether humans really need religions. Perhaps what we need is a humane education...