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...have to keep a lid on Tibet, where rights groups say there are still sporadic protests despite weeks of virtual military law. But Beijing's problems are not confined to Tibet. There have also been rumblings of dissent in the far-western Xinjiang province, populated largely by the Uighur Muslim minority group. Protests by thousands of Uighurs over religious issues were reported by rights groups in late March. The Chinese press meanwhile has reported several recent clashes with separatist rebels in the province; in early March, the press reported that a Uighur woman had attempted to bring down a domestic...
...social issues are kept vital by the Founding Fathers' decision to separate church and state. It's not a stretch to say the Pope sees in the U.S.--or in some kind of idealized version of it--a civic model and even an inspiration to his native Europe, whose Muslim immigrants raise the question of religious and political coexistence in the starkest terms. Says David Gibson, author of The Rule of Benedict: Pope Benedict XVI and His Battle with the Modern World: "As he tours the U.S., it's important to underscore that his philosophy has more consonances with...
...that its citizens deserve, we also saw checkpoints located well inside the West Bank that seem to have the purpose of hassling Palestinians. It was encouraging, though, to meet with Father Elias Chacour, a Catholic Archbishop and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee who runs a school for Jewish, Muslim and Christian children. We were also encouraged by life in Galilee, whose population is a fifty-fifty mix of Israelis and Palestinians. The city can be a model for peaceful coexistence in all of the Holy Land. Steve Hawkins, BOULDER, COLO...
...Harvard?” the women on the train next to me asked. “Did you hear about the gym that closed for the Muslim women?” “Yes,” I told them, “—and it’s really a non-issue.” They were shocked—after all, they had read about the six-hour-a-week closure of the Quad Recreational Athletics Center (QRAC) in The New York Times and The Washington Post, two arbiters of the important and newsworthy...
...national media has combined the QRAC story with “controversy” surrounding students performing the Muslim call to prayer from the steps of Widener Library during Islamic Awareness week. Thanks to an op-ed written in this newspaper by student organizers about their right to use a loudspeaker to amplify the prayer call in a public forum, the national media is convinced there is tangible frustration among Harvard students about the presence of Islam and religious life on campus...