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...features of regional Islam - arranged marriages, a ban on women driving - are not part of the program here. "It's a constant battle, separating cultural issues from religious values," says Siddiqui. The school does teach how to avoid being seduced by those parts of American culture many parents consider un-Islamic. "What we're up against in movies, television and music," she says, "is profanity, sex and violence. The whole teenage phenomenon in the U.S. is one of personal power - claiming their own voice, their own soul, their own spirit. We don't want to crush that. We want...
...European, I couldn't agree more with columnist Klein's position: "There is something fundamentally un-American?and very European?about the Clintons and the Bushes trading the office every eight years, with stale, familiar corps of retainers, supporters and enemies." American democracy demands new faces. Klein also noted that if Hillary runs for President, it would be "a circus, a revisitation of the carnival ugliness that infested public life in the 1990s." I'm afraid that whoever the candidates will be, the campaign will be ugly. In American politics, the parties seem to think that no matter how preposterous...
Indeed, by the spring of 1953, McCarthy’s movement turned its focus toward Cambridge after Robert G. Davies ’29 gave testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Davies, who had taught at Harvard in the 1930s, said that he and 15 other faculty members had been a part of a communist cell...
...toward her White House staff will come back to hit her with the fury of a tsunami. It will be a massive political and media sideshow. John Simpson Nashua, New Hampshire, U.S. As a European, I couldn't agree more with columnist Klein's position: "There is something fundamentally un-American - and very European - about the Clintons and the Bushes trading the office every eight years, with stale, familiar corps of retainers, supporters and enemies." American democracy demands new faces. Klein also noted that if Hillary runs for President, it would be "a circus, a revisitation of the carnival ugliness...
...pages are filled with jeremiads about believers--principally evangelical Christians and traditional Catholics--bent on turning the U.S. into a theocracy. Now I am not much of a believer, but there is something deeply wrong--indeed, deeply un-American--about fearing people simply because they believe. It seems perfectly O.K. for secularists to impose their secular views on America, such as, say, legalized abortion or gay marriage. But when someone takes the contrary view, all of a sudden he is trying to impose his view on you. And if that contrary view happens to be rooted in Scripture or some...