Word: respecting
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...then you shall see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matthew 7: 5). At a time when relations between the Muslim and Christian worlds are tense, the Pope's statement added fuel to the fire. It is important that we all respect one another's religion. Mohiuddin Waseem Karachi, Pakistan I was appalled by the reaction of some Muslim brethren to what Pope Benedict XVI referred to in his speech at Regensburg University merely to illustrate a point. The Pope mentioned nothing new but only repeated what had already been said, and that...
...winning correspondent for Russia's Novaya Gazeta; found shot to death in the elevator of her apartment building; in Moscow. Politkovskaya, who won praise for her intrepid coverage of Russia's war in the Caucasus, was named one of TIME's European Heroes in 2003. Though she enjoyed the respect of many on both sides of the conflict, she was hated by hard-liners and often the target of death threats; Politkovskaya was mysteriously poisoned during the 2004 Beslan school-hostage crisis while setting up negotiations with the Chechen separatist hostage-takers...
...called on to maintain our courage to confront bad words with better words. That is the hallmark of a university and of our democratic society. It is also one of our central safeguards against the impulses of intolerance that always threaten to engulf our commitment to proper respect for every person...
...Anna Politkovskaya was special. The crusading correspondent for the liberal Moscow-based biweekly Novaya Gazeta was admired by the liberal community and hated by corrupt military and political officials, although she had enjoyed grudging respect even among some hardliners on both sides of the Chechnya war. She had testified to the U.S. Congress and the European Union Human Rights Commission on atrocities committed in the North Caucasus...
...respect she had established in her work as a fiercely independent chronicler of the brutal conflict in the North Caucasus was evident during the 2002 hostage debacle when Chechen terrorists seized a Moscow theater and hundreds of people inside. Politkovskaya had been one of the very few people allowed by the Chechen group to enter the theater to negotiate on behalf of the hostages. During the Beslan School hostage crisis in 2004, Politkovskaya was badly poisoned (by state agents, she alleged), just as she was on the verge of brokering talks between senior Russian officials and Chechen separatist leaders...