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...religious freedom and tolerance that were entirely new to the country. It's a model Mohler hopes will succeed in Iraq. While missionaries will evangelize, he says, victory will come not in the form of conversions, but in the introduction of religious freedom into what he calls "the crescent of Islam...
...Fertile Crescent, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was home to the first known systems of writing, irrigation and mathematics. Cuneiform was stamped on clay tablets to record early works of literature, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh...
...humanitarian relief efforts in Palestine. In addition to Holy Land Foundation, which at the time was officially recognized as a tax-exempt charitable organization, several other groups were simultaneously considered, and ultimately the dinner’s proceeds were donated to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Society. In short, the Harvard Islamic Society has never sought to raise funds “for organizations that were later found to support terrorism.” HIS strongly condemns state and non-state sponsored violence against civilians, and a desire to provide humanitarian aid to innocent people cannot be labeled...
...Society (HIS) has in the past been criticized for planning to donate proceeds from a November 2000 fundraiser to the Holy Land Foundation, a charity which the U.S. government says has ties to Hamas. HIS ultimately chose not to donate to the group, giving instead to the International Red Crescent...
...water is coming!' Next thing I know, I'm swimming near the top of the mosque." He points to the fat, green onion of the dome, towering six or seven meters above the colorful chaos of wooden stilt houses rebuilt since the tsunami. "So I grabbed onto the crescent and held on for my life. Three more huge waves came in. The whole village was under water, and I could see bodies and bits of houses being churned around and sucked...