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...entire generation asking, 'Does God exist?' And now we have a generation that is very religious." Husic and her friends bear that out. As young girls, they watched their hometown of Mostar become ripped apart as lifelong neighbors turned against each other in a spiral of ethnic enmity; two of the four women lost their fathers, while another watched as an uncle was dragged away to his death. As rockets pummeled the city, the girls huddled in the makeshift basement that served as their classroom. Deeply shaken, all four opted to study in Egypt after the war under a religious...
...North Caucasus region, located between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, consists of a cluster of semiautonomous republics, many of them Islamic, arranged around the Caucasus Mountains. It's one of the most ethnically diverse regions in the world, with over 40 distinct ethnic groups. Much of the violence is carried out by Muslim militants who have declared war on police and state officials, calling them anti-Islamic for their allegiance to Russia. Other clashes are interethnic, with a century of conflict behind them. Based on the escalating levels of violence over the past 20 years, including two wars...
...will transfer as many as 17 Chinese Muslims from the Cuba prison to Palau, a small Pacific island nation 500 miles east of the Philippines. While finding countries willing to take Guantanamo detainees has been daunting, the task of finding a new home for the seventeen Uighurs - a Turkic ethnic group from northwestern China - has been one of the most delicate. Thanks to conflicting rulings by U.S. courts, the Uighurs are stuck in legal limbo; meanwhile, efforts to send them to other countries have been stymied by Beijing, which is demanding they be returned to China (where they could face...
...tendency to conflate personality and principle. "I stand here today as someone whose own life was made possible by these documents," he said during his national-security speech at the National Archives in May. As if there were any American for whom that is not true. Or as if ethnic minorities can make that claim more plausibly than other Americans. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor...
...does her superior knowledge of "ordinary" people arise from being Hispanic? Sotomayor thinks so, if we believe the snippet from a 2001 speech at the University of California, Berkeley, law school that rippled across the Internet this week. She believes judges cannot help being affected by gender and ethnic identity. "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences," she said, "would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." This doesn't make Sotomayor a bad person or a racist, even if Rush Limbaugh...