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...interview book Salt of the Earth (with Peter Seewald), he noted that "we must recognize that Islam is not a uniform thing. No one can speak for [it] as a whole. There is a noble Islam, embodied, for example, by the King of Morocco, and there is also the extremist, terrorist Islam, which, again, one must not identify with Islam as a whole, which would do it an injustice." This sophisticated understanding, however, did not keep Ratzinger from slapping down a bishop who wanted to invite peaceable Muslims to a papal ceremony in Fatima, Portugal, or, in 2004, from objecting...
...certainly God-fearing, pro-life Democrats who want to lower taxes. Giving our votes to those who represent the best of both worlds, rather than simply voting along party lines will not only keep both parties on their toes, but force them back to the center from the extremist positions that have become perceived as the norm. Until we learn to stop behaving like Democratic or Republican lemmings, we’ll continue to inch ever closer to falling en masse off the ledge into political powerlessness...
...other organizations that wittingly or unwittingly aid extremist groups in Palestinian society are performing a grave disservice to the region as a whole. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be solved diplomatically; there are simply too many moral, political, and historical factors at play. ISM activists, like Rachel Corrie, idealistically believe they are helping the Palestinians, but in reality only add fuel to the fire, deepening the animosity on both sides...
...resorted to black magic, invoking a "Pulsa Denura" ("Lashes of Fire") curse against Noah Satat, 29, the outspoken director of Jerusalem Open House, organizer of the parade. Several fanatical rabbis say that such curses led to the death of Premier Yitzhak Rabin, who was killed by a Jewish extremist for signing a peace treaty with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and that another malediction caused Ariel Sharon to have a stroke several months after he pulled Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip. Hexes can be laughed off, perhaps, but Satat, who has also received death threats, is now guarded...
...Jerusalem's gays say that next year, they will again try to hold their rainbow-hued parade. No doubt, the ultra-Orthodox will again try to stop them. "We've chased them back into the closet," exulted one religious extremist. But Israelis gays have no intention of staying locked inside...