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...Harvard’s Core Curriculum allows students to escape all of these topics and replace them with multicultural alternatives. In Historical Study A, for example, students can readily substitute for “Democracy in America and Europe” courses like “Gendered Communities: Women, Islam, and Nationalism in the Middle East and North Africa...
Bush ought to be furious at Boykin, because, until now, greater understanding and embrace of Islam have been real achievements of the Bush Administration. Even as America's victory in the Iraq war turns to ash, Bush can take pride that Americans have a greater appreciation that Muslims and their religion add to the richness of our great ethnic stew. And without Bush's special emphasis, the opposite might easily have happened...
...course, where they overlap with universal precepts, such as not murdering people, that even we nonbelievers can wrap our heads around.) Although Boykin's version of Christianity seems less like monotheism than the star of a high school polytheism tournament, his basic point is that Christianity is right and Islam is wrong. Doesn't the one imply the other? Pretending that my religion is no better than your religion may make for fewer religious wars, but it seems contrary to the very idea of religion. For this, you take a leap of faith...
Boykin's mistake was to put all these pieces together, implying that Islam itself is not merely mistaken but evil. Talking like this while in a U.S. military uniform was also pretty tactless. Mahathir's mistake, by contrast, was to open his trap...
...clear, chilly October morning, Mahmoud Abdelwahab leads a group of about 200 Muslim parents as they march on Bonn's city hall to protest efforts to shut down their school, the King Fahd Academy. German counterterrorism and local government officials claim that the academy promotes a radical brand of Islam, and that people affiliated with the school are linked to terrorism. Abdelwahab, 44, a spokesman for parents whose children attend the academy, says that's nonsense. He stops in front of city hall's pink Baroque façade and launches into an angry speech against the city's attempt...