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...hand in hand with their religious moderation, indicating that intolerance coincides with extreme religious dogmatism. But until a majority of Middle Eastern Muslims prioritizes freedom over religious dogma, the region cannot sustain stable democratic regimes. The protesters’ reaction to these cartoons certainly demonstrates that on the international stage a drawing so offensive cannot be printed without consequence. The response has been an atrocious display of violent and misdirected protest, as Muslims in Damascus and Beirut torched embassies and stormed the EU office in Gaza, heightening recurring fears about lawlessness in the region. Their only attempt at civil protest?...
...unvarnished truth of performing live. And for the recording of Birds, Runga gathered around her a band of like-minded souls - from Neil Finn on piano and bass guitarist Conrad Standish, of The Devastations, to The Boxcar Guitars' Benny Maitland on harmonica - to capture the intimacy of her stage shows. Through this haunted house of sounds, creaking and echoing with bouzouki-style guitar and harp, her voice weaves its silky web. "I know you have laid a trap for me," she whispers on the spellbinding Captured. And captured...
Summers, wearing a standard-issue black yarmulke, spoke from a small makeshift stage near the center of the hall. Yet without amplification—use of electronic appliances is forbidden during the Jewish sabbath—he was nearly inaudible to much of the maximum capacity crowd...
...history student within detected a certain resonance with the pre-modern Church and the way it dealt with dissidents.I’d like to be satiated by an intellectual discourse over the cartoon jihad, to have people who know more than I do brought together on a stage to discuss and debate the issue. Yet, a look at the posterboards last week was enough to dampen that hope.Advertised were the following: a three-week study group on “the Military in American Democracy,” an Elaine Scarry speech...
...with troops in the field would help establish Harper's credentials as a national leader representing Canada abroad without his having to worry about being embarrassed by his inexperience at an early, high-profile meeting with Bush. Harper's immediate predecessors were already at home on the world stage by the time they became PMs. Jean Chr?tien had been Foreign and Finance Minister when he met Bill Clinton at a 1993 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting two weeks after taking office, and Martin's credentials as Finance Minister helped finesse his first trip as PM, to a 2004 meeting...