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...says. “We’re dealing with a complex situation. In a journey, you never know quite what the next step is, and we’re anticipating obstacles, but so far the project has progressed.”WHY ABRAHAM?Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and the Baha’i faith are all considered Abrahamic traditions, a classification that includes over half of the world’s actively religious population. Abraham, whose life is narrated in Genesis, is a central patriarch in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and is described as a prophet in the Qu?...
...persevered in flushing the Taliban out of power in Afghanistan rather than starting a war in Iraq, there would have been more international resolve to stop the likes of North Korea from developing a nuclear bomb. But now the Muslim world believes the West has declared war on Islam, and rogue nations have learned that the possession of nuclear bombs can serve as a deterrent to the U.S. The world is a divided and unsafe place. At least during the cold war we had two superpowers in opposition whose fear of each other made peace for everyone, but today danger...
...head in tinfoil and running for the border. Beyond the Bush administration’s gaze and shrouded in Canada’s more privacy-friendly (and, perhaps, terrorist-friendly) institutions, a scholar can only hope against hope that research in apparently fringe subjects like nuclear proliferation and Islam won’t lead to her becoming the subject of a (secret) investigation...
...York City It is time for western countries to find alternatives to the U.N. not only because it is incapable of preventing wars, as Krauthammer pointed out, but also because it has become an ideological bureaucracy that regards all cultural values as equal. While Islamic fundamentalists intimidate the West by manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom to think and express oneself-and even mock authority figures-is the bedrock of Western values, and to defend this freedom it appears necessary to disband...
...clash between gays and the keepers of Jerusalem's three faiths - in a rare display of solidarity, rabbis, priests and Muslim clerics in the holy city all united against the parade - was averted because of security fears. (Hatred of homosexuality, it seems, is the one thing that unites Islam, Judaism and Christianity in the fractious Holy City...