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...question confronting middle-of-the-road Muslims around the world is whether to be reflective, expressive and active in defeating the extremists lurking among us or to be unthinking, silent and passive, thus allowing the radicals to defeat us. The tide was beginning to turn in the favor of moderates until the U.S. invaded Iraq. The task of moderate Muslims has become much harder, but we must redouble our efforts to reclaim our faith from those who defile it. Hasan Zillur Rahim San Jose...
...same time as moving 4,000 of them to Asia. O'Neill's union, for one, acknowledges that it's fruitless to fight the offshoring trend as a whole and that it's better to pick the battles carefully. France, by comparison, isn't willing to concede defeat. But, say offshoring's proponents, it's only a matter of time before the French, too, give...
...enter the riverbed of secularism?" Austrian E.U. Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler opined that Turkey was culturally "oriental," geographically "Asian" and that accession would open "a geostrategic Pandora's box." Frits Bolkestein, the Dutch E.U. Commissioner for the Internal Market, said that admitting Turkey could mean that the historic defeat of Ottoman armies at the gates of Vienna in 1683 "would have been in vain." It's not clear what all this sound and fury really signifies. Technically, the E.U. has already agreed to begin talks with Turkey "without delay" if the European Commission finds that...
...tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. Together, they crafted what would become neo-conservatism—an attack on Jimmy’s Carter weakness, but mainly a new conservative agenda to end arms control, rebuild the military, aid anti-Communists and thus (they believed) defeat the Soviet Union. This was the coherent policy vision Ronald Reagan could consistently embrace; this was the program the voters of 1980 understood they would be getting...
Democrats should return to the legacy of Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, and embrace the proposition that supporting the spread of democracy throughout the world is the single most effective strategy we can employ to foster global peace and defeat the rising tide of extremism. That does not mean Kerry has to concede the Iraq debate to Bush—that would be like FDR forfeiting the issue of economic management to Herbert Hoover...