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TIME: Your wife chaired a press conference about the bad treatment of women in Afghanistan. What about Saudi Arabia? Do you approve of the way women are treated there? Do you think Christians should be able to worship freely there? BLAIR: There are positions taken there that are not the positions I take here in my country. I'm not going to get in the business of attacking the Saudi system...
...world. It also gives them the confidence to practice their religion more openly, unlike their parents or grandparents who thought their sojourn in Europe was temporary and so were content to express their faith in private. Their children view Europe as their home and see no reason not to worship more publicly...
...close-knit and diverse residential community, which welcomes and supports all sorts of students. Harvard wisely does not refrain from engaging us on spiritual and religious terms when taking over significant portions of our personal lives—we eat Harvard food, sleep in Harvard beds and worship in Harvard churches, synagogues and mosques. As a Harvard student, I expect my University, which has taken over so much of my residential life, to provide me with a complete personal environment. Which means that if one expects to have Christmas decorations in one’s home, even dining room, then...
...forget that not so long ago, the government had no compunction about spying on citizens? religious practices. Despite the long-standing association of the American bill of rights with absolute religious freedom, it wasn?t until the early 1970s that the federal government stopped its surveillance of places of worship. Before that, FBI director J. Edgar Hooper spent much of his term spying on the comings and goings of rabble-rousers as varied as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and assorted Ku Klux Klan members...
...reason for an investigation. "Religion can?t form the basis for launching an inquiry in the first place," he says. "That kind of singling out flies in the face of our laws. If there are any concrete disadvantaging treatments or consequences - including chilling of expression or practices of worship -" there will probably be legal challenges...