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...with Mr. Keyes mirrors the broader dilemma that liberalism has faced in answering the religious right. Liberalism teaches us to be tolerant of other people's religious beliefs, so long as those beliefs don't cause anyone harm or impinge on another's right to believe differently. To the extent that religious communities are content to keep to themselves and faith is neatly confined as a matter of individual conscience, such tolerance is not tested...
Many librarians expressed disappointment when Smiley did not receive the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. Along with other affected libraries, Harvard College Library submitted victim impact statements urging the court to punish Smiley under the fullest extent...
...senior journalists, he joined Libération decades ago and lives close by its offices. Deputy editor, Pierre Haski, also 53, says that, with a generational shift in France, the dynamic idealists of Sartre's 1968 generation are "on the way out, but blamed for everything." To an extent, the paper's problems are similar to those faced by newspapers in much of the rich world. It is up against competition from free newspapers distributed in Paris' underground trains, the Internet, several newsweeklies and 24-hour news radio stations. In France, the problems are compounded by laws heavily restricting where...
Second, our local worlds are more pluralistic than ever, having been made much more complex by the worldwide migration of people both as refugees and immigrants. Over the past four decades, the U.S. has become a multi-religious nation to a greater extent than ever before. There are Islamic centers, Hindu and Buddhist temples, synagogues, and a multitude of contesting churches in every major city...
...with the Near East, as anyone acquainted with the history of the Crusades might have guessed. And my contention is that developments that took place and ideologies that crystallized during the long crusading period marked forever the history of all of Europe, the Near East, and to some small extent the so-called New World as well. The unifying factor is the interplay of war and religion. Was I prescient in 1981, did I prophesize 9/11 in offering this course? No, I was not. The connection to 9/11, if any there be, is of quite another nature. In fact, while...