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...play’s cryptic title succinctly embodies the duality of the religion??s conflict. Paying homage to a sermon in the Holy Q’uran that promises martyrs in the name of Allah will be rewarded with 200 virgins, the title refers to recent interpretations and re-readings of the text that suggest that word for “virgins” could actually mean “raisins.” Since the latter translation would deeply undercut the seriousness of suicide bomber missions, the settling on a single interpretation of the sermon...
Compare this to any presidential campaign, policy debate, or national moral crisis in America. Presidents have to display their religion??not discreetly but openly. The leader of the secular country cannot be secular himself...
...strongly against bin Laden and his supporters and has been bold enough to declare them as outside of Islam. And the fact that this is coming from within the Muslim community is empowering. Only the Muslims themselves can effect the change necessary to remove these extremist elements from their religion??just as it took a people’s uprising in Lebanon to spur Syria’s nascent withdrawal. And as the representative of one million Muslims, the Islamic Commission of Spain has the clout to begin this much-needed purge...
...planning committee’s report offers further justification, “While some might assume that comparison or ‘comparative religion?? necessarily entails a position of either extreme universalism or radical relativism, the study of religious worlds that are distinct from one’s own challenges one to consider the family resemblances among human concerns, to see the rich diversity of responses to such human concerns as a resource for thinking anew within one’s own tradition...
There was a time, of course, when R.E.M., the Georgian architects of such paralyzingly catchy tunes as “Losing My Religion?? and “Everybody Hurts” were the darlings of the college rock scene, selling nearly 45 million albums. Even after leaving indie IRS Records for Warner Brothers in 1988, R.E.M. maintained musical credibility, generally lauded by critics and fans alike. The combination of Peter Buck’s lush guitar work and Michael Stipe’s piercing, emotion-choked vocals, made their sound truly unique...