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...blasphemy in fundamentalist circles, but if ever the Koran's message of tolerance bears repeating, it is now. Bhutto's criticism of Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" theory is also pertinent. Huntington posited, in a 1993 essay in the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations magazine Foreign Affairs, that conflict between Islam and the West was inevitable. Bhutto, drawing on the works of several authors, argues that Huntington's idea "has actually helped provoke the confrontation it predicts ... The clash of civilizations theory is not just intellectually provocative: it fuels xenophobia and paranoia both in the West...
...despite this overwhelming sense of negativity towards uninvited preaching amongst even the Divinity School faculty, there is still a strong presence of religious solicitation on campus.Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, who just stepped down from her role as president of the Harvard Secular Society, notes the conflict involved in restricting religious recruitment while preserving First Amendment rights. “I wouldn’t want to restrict religious solicitors from coming here. I think that restricts freedom of speech, but I do think that maybe there should be some sort of restriction,” she says...
...failing to fulfill the responsibilities he was given," pronounced Socialist party leader François Hollande, gleefully lecturing Sarkozy - who has promised to restore civic discipline - that a politician "can't enter into conflict with someone who won't shake your hand." Sarkozy's conservative backers played the altercation the opposite way. Employment Minister Xavier Bertrand complained about the inordinate attention the spat had generated, though noted people "don't have the right to humiliate the president" with comments he qualified as "hurtful." Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier also cast his boss as a victim in the affair, saying, "I sense...
...death of Mughniyah may have marked a turning point in the long conflict between Hizballah and Israel. After years of ambivalence over Mughniyah's connection with the Shi'ite party, Hizballah leaders have embraced him as one of its greatest resistance leaders, responsible for turning the group's military wing into the heavily armed crack fighting force it is today. In the West, Mughniyah was better known for his alleged association with the large-scale suicide bomb attacks and kidnappings of foreigners in 1980s Beirut. More recently, Mughniyah reportedly assisted militant groups in the Palestinian territories and in Iraq, ensuring...
...Saad-Ghorayeb, a Hizballah expert with the Carnegie Endowment's Middle East Center in Beirut. But not everyone in south Lebanon is ready for another round with Israel. Many residents of the battle-scarred south are still repairing the damage of the 2006 war and the notion of another conflict striking the region is not welcomed, even among some Hizballah supporters. "God bless Nasrallah and the resistance. They have fought and sacrificed for Lebanon. But we are tired of wars and just want to raise our children in peace," said Hassan, a shopkeeper in a mainly Shi'ite border village...