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...Amanda L. Shapiro ’08, president of the Harvard Secular Society, said she approved of this apparent trend...
...clenched, still fighting. In the last version his head is hanging, his mother and friend embracing the cross and the body. There's no more need for beautifying: their humanity shines out. The overall effect is almost voyeuristic, which, for once, is appropriate; the mixture of religious passion and secular skill makes us all the more grateful that these drawings escaped the bonfire...
...home or in dame schools, where a benevolent woman taught several children for a few hours a day in her home. In 1880, when less than a third of New South Wales children received schooling, the state's Premier, Henry Parkes, pushed through the Public Instruction Act, establishing free, secular and compulsory education. School has been seen as the place for kids to learn ever since. But homeschoolers are now lobbing water bombs at that status...
That an Islamic hard-liner has inspired such pride among even secular, Westernized Iranians says everything about the political climate in Iran today and shows how Ahmadinejad has transformed himself from a lightly regarded ideologue to a national hero. In recent months the President has used the escalating standoff over Iran's nuclear program as a platform for broadening his appeal at home, framing the West as an enemy bent on weakening Iran by denying it legitimate access to technology. Indeed, many observers believe that Ahmadinejad is reacting to the masses' increasingly assertive mood as much as he is stoking...
...governed by Islamic Sharia law rather than a civil code. And it's not clear how a conflict between Sharia and the Afghan constitution's embrace of U.N. Human Rights conventions that guarantee freedom of worship would be resolved. The country's chief justice, Fazl Hadi Shinwari, has no secular legal education, and had previously been the head of a Council of Islamic Scholars. He is also a close associate of Abdul-Rabb al-Rassul Sayyaf, by a mujahedeen warlord-turned-legislator who once had close ties with Osama bin Laden...