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Crime rates in Cambridge have remained flat in recent years, while violent crime in Boston is skyrocketing, part of a nationwide trend of heightened violence.The number of Beantown shootings increased by 34 percent in 2005, according to Boston Police Department (BPD), while the violent crime rate in Cambridge dropped less than 1 percent. According to BPD Sergeant Thomas Sexton, there were 75 homicides in Boston in the last year, “the highest in ten years.”Sexton attributed the majority of violent crimes in Boston to the city’s juvenile population...
...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—the boycott of Arla Foods, the Danish-Swedish dairy giant—has been a conflation...
...editorial printed next to the cartoons, the Salient’s editors also criticized “the way Islam has been usurped worldwide for purposes of violence and oppression,” and called the violent disturbances in the Muslim world “shameful...
...first law of modern life is that everything is as impermanent as an image on a screen; the only form of continuity (the Buddhist monks in Thimphu or Kathmandu might have told us) is change. Suddenly, Nepal, haunted by violent Maoist insurgents on the one hand and an autocratic King on the other, is the country that is difficult for tourists to enjoy, its streets silent after dark, its character less free and easy than stuck and stricken. As for Bhutan, its citizens can now take in Sex and the City on TV, watch foreigners check into Aman luxury hotels...
...could have been the embassies burning, or the pledges of decapitation for offending cartoonists, or the priest shot dead while praying in his church in Turkey. Whether it was a singularly disturbing violent act or the coalescing of many vile reactions, I have been gripped by the ongoing Danish cartoon jihad, and my sentiments have settled with that rare union of outrage and scholarly interest.From these Muslims at the beginning of the 21st century, the history student within detected a certain resonance with the pre-modern Church and the way it dealt with dissidents.I’d like...