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...show that Islam sees God as so transcendent that reason is extraneous, Benedict cited an 11th century Muslim sage named Ibn Hazm. To establish the connection between this position and violence, he quoted a 15th century Christian Byzantine Emperor (and head of the Byzantine, or Eastern, Church) named Manuel II Paleologus. Paleologus criticized Muslims for "spreading [their faith] by the sword," both because "God is not pleased by blood" and because true conversion depended on reason. "Show me just what the Muhammad brought that was new," Paleologus said, in a passage quoted by Benedict, "and there you will find things...
...think he knew exactly what he was saying and regard the Islamic section of the 35-min. speech as a brave and eloquent warning of Islam's inherent violence and of a faithless West's inability to offer moral response. Yet Benedict's argument was slapdash and flawed. His sage, Ibn Hazm, turned out to have belonged to a school with no current adherents, and although reason's primacy is debated in Islam, it is very much part of the culture that developed algebra. Paleologus' forced-conversion accusation misrepresents the sweep of Muslim history, since more often than not, Islam...
...mind as he continues his streak at the Stadium.“I have to go six years at five games a season in order to hit 400,” he said. “That’s my target.”And what does this sage of Crimson football history have in mind for his 62nd Game?“I think we can beat them, but we can’t make any mistakes,” he says. “I would say maybe 28-21, maybe 28-24, [because] they?...
Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), the great American sage, once said “As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else…It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.” But in the wake of last week’s elections it seems that the worst fears...
...Peter Skerry, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, teaches political science at Boston College