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Exiles who dream of a revolution from below would despair. Many of the Cubans we meet show no interest in politics, nor do they talk about a political solution to their country's problems. But not because this is a nation of devout communists: "Most people became revolutionary not from reading Karl Marx," says Blanco, "but because they saw suffering in the streets." Even in the privacy of a dissident's house, there is no eager call for multiparty democracy. Most Cubans do not seem to care what kind of political system they have as long as they have...
...traditions in the larger society. Hindus have discovered that they must inculcate their faith in their young much more consciously and aggressively than in India, where it could be taken for granted. As new religions find their footing and become bolder, some analysts believe that surprises are in store. Devout adherents of Asian religions, for example, are as uncomfortable as Middle American Protestant Fundamentalists with the sort of secularization that U.S. intellectuals have fostered in education, law, politics, entertainment and the arts. Phong Nguyen, leader of a Vietnamese Buddhist congregation in Washington, sounds for all the world like a Christian...
Rubens, perhaps the greatest name in seventeenth century Flemish art, worked primarily in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp. During the Protestant Reformation, Antwerp was torn apart by fierce religious battles. Only when the devout Catholic Spanish archdukes Albert and Isabella were installed there as governors in 1599 was hope restored to the city. Thereafter, Antwerp experienced a brief renewed Golden Age in business and the arts, and Rubens played an instrumental role. As Albert's and Isabella's court painter, he led an artistic propaganda campaign to proclaim Catholic dominance in the area. Assisted by his students and colleagues, Rubens...
...many, the Afghan war was a transforming experience. "I haven't met one person who was sorry he went," says Ahmed Sattar, a director of a Brooklyn mosque where Abouhalima and other defendants prayed. "Most of them left America as ordinary men and came back so devout and so proud. The war reminded them of the glorious old days, many hundreds of years ago, when Muslims were fighting the infidel...
...friends, he is Mahmud the Red, a devout Muslim who came to America to work hard and raise a family. To prosecutors, he is a religious extremist who helped bomb the World Trade Center...