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...Come Only a Little Way, Baby Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic revolution but are now letting up slightly
When Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an erudite Persian debated in 1391 about Islam and Christianity, Constantinople was under a siege that would eventually succeed, some decades later, in bringing down the last bastion of the Roman Empire. They argued about the balance of reason and faith, specifically in its application to proselytizing through force...
Essentially, Benedict XVI was debating freely and openly like Manuel II and his Persian interlocutor had once done. Drawing from other speeches given during his Bavarian escapade, and last year’s encyclical letter entitled Deus Caritas Est (“God is Love”), we can conclude the once-called “rottweiler” Cardinal Ratzinger molded into a truly ecumenical pontiff. He quotes enlightened philosophes, concelebrates with rabbis and patriarchs, and is quite fond of neo-Platonic reasoning in his homilies. He even repeatedly quotes passages in the Qur’an. In short...
...addition, Israel can't muster the firepower that the U.S. has, so its jets could likely handle only a limited number of targets - perhaps the soon-to-be-operating Bushehr reactor on Iran's Persian Gulf coast and the fuel enrichment plants at Natanz south of Tehran. That means the raid could only hope to set Iran's nuclear program back for several years...
...planning for a strike on Iran. Its air force, according to Jones, has conducted a number of training exercises useful for an Iran strike, such as simulated long-range air attacks. Jones says there are also signs that Israel has stepped up its collection of electronic intelligence in the Persian Gulf and against Arab countries that its jets might have to pass over for an attack. But how serious Israel is about actually carrying out a strike "is a separate story," he says. "I think the likelihood at the moment is pretty...