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...half-hearted attempt at peace cannot be justified in Islam. We are taught by the example of the Prophet that the value of an action is determined by the intention behind it, and that honesty and unambiguity in intention is of utmost importance. Treaties are taken very seriously in Islam. The Koran notes that treaties should not be broken, in more than one place. Referring to treaties made with non-Muslims, the Koran explicitly orders in c. 9: v. 04 that unless non-Muslims have failed to abide by the terms of the treaty, all terms and conditions...
...That is why this crisis is of profound importance. One of Jesus' main teachings was the dignity of the vulnerable - children central among them. Unless you are like a child, Jesus taught, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven. When Jesus' own church, far from protecting children, molests them and shields their abusers, the sin goes to the heart of what the church is about. And when its leaders cannot take full responsibility, the sin can only metastasize. Bernard Cardinal Law didn't even attend the press conference last week to explain the Cardinals' statement to the people...
...Before settling on teaching in 1985, Mr. Montgomery served four years in the United States Army and subsequently practiced law in Baltimore. For eight years after that, he taught history, coached football, lacrosse, and swimming, supervised a girl’s dormitory, and directed the summer school at St. George’s School in Newport, Rhode Island...
...reverse isn’t true. “I knew how [white people] danced, what kind of music they liked, their jokes, how they talked, and when I came here, it was like, ‘OK, I’m seeing what I’ve been taught my entire life.’ I wasn’t shocked by any white person here,” he says. “For them, the education is being around a black person...
Sure, I’ve had my share of awkward academic encounters. I taught a Monday section that was almost entirely mute except for the occasional sound of my voice, the dull hum of an electric clock, the gentle heave of someone’s hungover breathing and the faint notes of Led Zeppelin emanating from one student’s set of badly hidden headphones...