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...More striking than several hundred students selflessly giving up food—fasting might be uncommon at Harvard, but charitable gestures are not—was the Muslim call to prayer, the adhan, issued through the Yard from the Widener steps...
Beijing is particularly incapable of flexibility when it comes to policy toward ethnic areas of the country because it fears that any sign of weakness could open up the floodgates and lead to widespread demand for autonomy in other areas such as the Muslim province of Xinjiang. "There is just no safety valve for ethnic issues in China," says Bequelin. "It remains one of the most retrograde areas of policy. They just don't have the tools to handle something like this...
This is the most confounding part of the notion of social sin. Sin, unlike crime or folly, is a spiritual notion: for Muslim or Jew or Christian, sin is the saboteur that keeps us from grace, separates us from God. The new list is about what separates us from one another; it makes abstract the failings that once were intimate and in the process may make sin smaller, not bigger or more relevant. Private faith already speaks to public duty, as Mohandas Gandhi suggested with his version of the seven deadly sins: "Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, science without...
...have to make sure the remedy isn't worse than the disease," says another French counterterror official, noting the relatively small number of kidnapping cases to date. "The reality is, a Western military strike on a Muslim nation today would inflame Muslim populations across the planet, turn the entire area into a land of jihad for extremists everywhere, and send scores of European youths into extremism...
...Pentagon is that despite Fallon's departure, war with Iran is no more likely next month than it was last month. The U.S. military, its hands full in Iraq and Afghanistan, could only engage in an air war against Iran's nuclear sites. The ramifications of attacking a third Muslim nation since 9/11 are so extreme, military officers believe, that no President would launch such a war in his final months in office...