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...hours of videotaped sermons in which he advocated the killing of nonbelievers - "for any reason, you can say it is O.K., even if there is no reason for it" - and Jews. But a week earlier, two members of the far-right British National Party, on trial for slamming Islam as "vicious" and "wicked" to whip up racial hatred, were acquitted. And police made no arrests at an anticartoon demonstration by militant Islamists, despite slogans that called for the extermination of those who mock Islam...
...other hand, a prosecutor secured a court order last year shutting a website that concocted a photomontage of Pope Benedict XVI in a Nazi SS uniform, following disclosures that he had served briefly in the Hitler Youth. Italy prohibits publicly insulting religion - but whether the law protects Islam hasn't been tested. To many Muslims in Europe, that's a particular rub. Laws touted as evenhanded appear to tilt in favor of the home team. Dutch film director Theo van Gogh, before he was murdered by a radical Islamist in Amsterdam, was a poster boy for unconditional free speech...
...THERE BOOKS BY SCHOLARS OF ISLAM THAT YOU FIND PARTICULARLY INSIGHTFUL? John Esposito at Georgetown has done a number of books. I've read excerpts of a lot of them. [Reza Aslan's] No God but God, I've read it. Here at the State Department, we've hosted several events, trying to educate our own employees. We've had three scholars and one cleric come and speak about Islamic culture and traditions, and we had a huge turnout...
...sort, and protesters like those in Kabul have a message for the West: Get used to it. Across the Islamic world, daily demonstrations of varying size and intensity have brought hundreds of thousands into the streets--some driven as much by disgruntlement as by religious fervor, but many others motivated by genuine outrage at the perceived desecration of the most revered figure in Islam. Yet even for Westerners sympathetic to Muslims' right to vent their anger, the mayhem that marked the protests last week was as unsettling as the cartoons themselves. A day after mobs in Damascus torched the Danish...
...psychiatry in society. Eck said that she was shocked when she learned that Ramadan, a Swiss citizen and currently a visiting professor at Oxford University, had been denied entry to the United States. “He is one of the foremost thinkers and interpreters of Islam and the West,” Eck said, acknowledging his reputation as an advocate of Muslim integration into Western society. “These are exactly the sorts of Muslim voices that we want to nurture,” she added. Under the guidance of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU...