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Getting to Know God Robert Wright's article, "Decoding God's Changing Moods," on historical interactions among monotheistic religions is interesting [June 15]. But when he refers to "the most dangerous of intra-Abrahamic fault lines, the one between Muslims and Jews," he is wrong. The attacks in New York...
Your article highlights the obvious source of all religion: the human imagination. At its best, religion is applied for the greater good, to regulate society and provide simple rules that benefit the majority. At other times, and less happily, it is hijacked to further the greedy, political or capricious aims...
The Pendulum Swings The Islamic revival in Bosnia is classic human nature [June 15]. The Bosnian Muslims had a mainly secular sense of identity but were nevertheless brutalized during the Balkan civil war due to their religion, for there is little else to differentiate Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks. In reaction...
In Egypt, the reaction has been impassioned - some would say extreme. When Sherbini's body was buried in her hometown of Alexandria on Monday, thousands turned out for the funeral, raising banners and, according to wire reports, chanting slogans such as "The Germans are the enemies of God" and "Down...
It's not the first educational pamphlet of its kind. In the past, the ministry has offered mosques similar guidebooks on issues ranging from terrorism to women's dress. And the solutions proposed in the booklet - which range from a greater adherence to religious and family values to better law...