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This past June, 94 Charlesview residents signed an open letter to Harvard calling upon the University to help them remodel their homes rather than push for relocation...
Please, listen to Pastor Ted: “There is part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I’ve been warring against it all of my adult life,” he wrote in a letter to his congregation. Now, subtract the self-loathing and jihad rhetoric, and what are you left with? A man who has been fighting with himself for all of his adult life. Not the effeminate, tradition-flaunting liberal who has decided to be countercultural, but a deeply pious man who has tried his very hardest to suppress his desires...
...with 66 in all of 2005. When it comes to journalists?46 have been killed on Arroyo's watch?the murder rate is second only to Iraq's. Last week seven major U.S. companies with operations in the Philippines, including Wal-Mart and Gap, were moved to write a letter urging Arroyo to protect workers, especially union members, at their local subcontractors...
...responses to the Pope's speech reflect the belief of jihadist groups, such as al-Qaeda, that their religion mandates the use of any means necessary, including suicide bombers and the mass killing of civilians, to bring about the world's submission to Islam. In an Oct. 12 "Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI," 38 distinguished Islamic religious authorities, including Grand Muftis in Turkey, Egypt, Russia, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia and Uzbekistan, wrote that "jihad ... means struggle, and specifically struggle in the way of God. This struggle may take many forms, including the use of force." The signers delicately...
Nonetheless, the open letter was framed in respectful terms and was welcomed at the Vatican. It is noteworthy, however, that the Pope has not retreated from his challenge to Islam. Moreover, under his leadership, the Vatican has taken a much stronger line in insisting on "reciprocity" in relations with Islam. Mosques proliferate throughout cities in the West, while any expression of non-Islamic religion is strictly forbidden in many Muslim countries. In the Vatican and elsewhere, the feeling has been growing that the way of tolerance, dialogue and multicultural sensitivity can no longer be a one-way street. In fact...