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...dangerous of intra-Abrahamic fault lines, the one between Muslims and Jews," he is wrong. The attacks in New York, London, Bali, Madrid and Mumbai were planned and perpetrated by Muslim fanatics, but they were not directed against Jews. True, Islamic fundamentalism would like to convert the Middle East conflict from a territorial dispute into a religious war. But ultimately its problem is not with Judaism; it is with the rest of the world. Noru Tsalic, COVENTRY, ENGLAND...
...that benefit the majority. At other times, and less happily, it is hijacked to further the greedy, political or capricious aims of the few. Understanding this basic principle - and that we all have a fundamental choice between tolerance and belligerence - would be a much needed step towards eliminating religious conflict, and with it, human suffering. Rik Hofland, MUSCAT...
Obama avoided any sense that American values and Islamic ones were in conflict. Instead, he offered a more porous vision of both Islam and the West, one in which "Islam has always been a part of America's story." Where Sarkozy rushed to define what the burqa meant ("subservience ... debasement"), Obama just cast the hijab as a personal choice, protected...
...human-rights record. When the E.U. recently offered a multibillion-dollar loan to help modernize the Ukrainian pipeline system - conduit for 70% of Russian gas sales to Europe - Russian leaders were furious. Moscow has also tried to foil European attempts to build stronger energy links with Azerbaijan. Potential for conflict exists in Georgia, where E.U. observers are the only ones left after Russia forced Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and United Nations' monitors to leave Abkhazia and South Ossetia...
...Liberia, Johnson Sirleaf is doing better. She set a three-year poverty-reduction strategy whose four pillars are peace and security, governance and the rule of law, infrastructure and basic services, and economic revitalization. A U.N. peacekeeping force and an embargo on arms are keeping conflict at bay. Schools and hospitals have reopened. Tax receipts are up. Bureaucracy is down. U.N. sanctions on diamond and timber exports have been lifted. Liberia is attracting foreign investment in iron ore, timber, palm oil and construction. Though steel giant Arcelor Mittal recently mothballed a $1.5 billion project to reopen an iron-ore mine...