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...United States as well as 80 countries and have a rich mix of interests, backgrounds, and talents,” its admissions homepage proclaims. Harvard values the diversity that international students bring to the table—after all, it is exciting to sit in a seminar on Islam with students from Israel, Australia, England and Canada, as I did this fall. But apparently it doesn’t care enough to help these students file for citizenship. All Harvard’s talk of being an international center of learning is just an empty slogan unless it follows through...
...region struggling to reconcile religious law with individual freedom, Afghanistan’s new constitution shines out as an example of the balance that can be struck between democracy and religion. The document that creates the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is based on a system of civil law, but one in which no law may be contrary to the beliefs and provisions of Islam. It embraces the United Nations Charter and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. The document sets aside two representatives from each district—25 percent of the lower house—for women, who become...
...some of us choose to wear the headscarf. But even if the headscarf does indeed represent a segregation of communities, the ban will do nothing to help integrate France. In response to the ban, Muslim parents may take their children out of public schools and place them in private Islamic schools—not exactly a move towards assimilation. Even worse, parents may decide to pull their daughters out of school entirely, though Islam emphasizes learning and knowledge. Ultimately, the unwise ban proposes to treat the effects of social disintegration rather than the cause: France’s failed assimilation...
...more realistic fear is that some Muslim girls are forced by family members to wear the headscarf. But customs cannot be changed by government decree. This problem, where it exists, must be tackled by education—undertaken by both the state and, more importantly, the mosques. Islam is a religion based on a personal connection with God, and a forced devotion is no devotion...
...little in the makeup of the G.M.I.P. suggests that it shares the jihadist fervor of JI or al-Qaeda. Founded in 1995, the group seems driven as much by profiteering as fighting for Islam. Like the Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, the G.M.I.P. is deep into extortion and kidnapping. Governmental and security officials are speculating openly that the group is not seizing arms for its own use but to sell on the black market that flourishes in the south...