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In the current turmoil over Turkey's identity that pits political Islam against staunch secularism in the courts and on the streets, the Alevis offer a third way - a faith-based humanism big enough to incorporate both piety and modernity. Indeed, Alevi Islam is as layered as the ceremonial dress...
It is the transcendent irony of this campaign that Obama, who entered the race intent on getting past the "dorm fights of the '60s," has now become deeply entangled in them. Each of the ABC moderators' questions were about controversies that erupted in the '60s. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright's...
On his trip to Valencia in 2006, Pope Benedict XVI made it clear that he was not pleased with the changes in Spain, including same-sex marriage. "We want to make people understand that according to human nature, it is man and woman who are made for each other and...
That was underscored when the main suspects in the Glasgow Airport bomb plot turned out to be doctors. According to a 2004 study by Marc Sageman, a former CIA officer and forensic psychiatrist, the stereotype of the jihadi as poor and uneducated needs revision. Of 400 terrorist suspects studied, he...
Hamad said Christmas in Bethlehem makes him lonely. Religion made me lonely. One of my parents was a Hindu, the other a Catholic. I went to services of both faiths from time to time. My ex-wife persuaded me to become a Presbyterian, and now I am an agnostic. Religion...