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...hijackers were Saudis, Abdullah has sent clear signals--albeit in the quiet, gradual Saudi way--that Saudis must face the rot in their own society. One after another, he called in groups of Saudi imams, teachers, journalists and businessmen and warned them against taking Saudi Arabia's puritanical creed of religion, known as Wahhabism, to unacceptable extremes. Though not to Washington's complete satisfaction, Abdullah began tightening up on potential terrorist financing, scrutinizing Islamic charities and freezing some suspect bank accounts, an explosive issue in a culture that fiercely guards privacy...
...doubt it. I think God avoids Wisse’s conflation of Israel and Judaism—indeed, I hope he does, lest the sins of Israel taint the vast majority of Jews who believe in freedom and human rights for all, no matter what the race or creed. As long as Israel flagrantly violates human rights, it deserves to be ‘bashed.’ Wisse claims that Jews feel ‘enormous pressure to live up to the measure of God’—it’s high time...
...KaZaA than any kind of hostile takeover. Even following the recent MTV-manufactured “return to rock,” the American airwaves remain inaccessible to British bands and cluttered with the bratty, pseudo-garage sounds of Sum 41, or the glam pop-rock of Nickelback and Creed...
...Issue ? Topics include the rock group Creed, the popular SpongeBob SqaurePants cartoon and the movie "Black Hawk Down...
...artistic aphasia of Yamaide's Nowhere mirrors the contrived nothingness of Martin Creed's The Lights Going On and Off, which won last year's Turner Prize. The Palais de Tokyo's curators seem intent on recreating the buzz that surrounded British conceptualism of the 1990s. But as last year's Turner awards so amply demonstrated, today's British scene has degenerated into a media circus. Conceptual art has always been about ideas. For it to be interesting, though, the ideas have to be new. Tired ironic commentaries on consumer society are not good enough. For all the post-postmodern...