Mar 02 2012
We are fighting Islamism from ignorance, as we did the cold war By Simon Jenkins, Thursday 1 March 2012 15.00 EST … Were we wrong? I have lived through two global conflicts: the west against Russian communism and now the west against political Islam. The latter was caused by western leaders exaggerating a threat from …
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Mar 01 2012
Those defending US Constitution from sharia must have failed high school civics By Reza Aslan and Harris Zafar, February 29, 2012 … There are those who would have you believe that Islamic law, or sharia, is taking over America. They seem to allege that the 1 percent of the American population that is Muslim is …
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Feb 26 2012
America’s endless apocalypse By Matthew Barrett Gross and Mel Gilles, Sunday, Feb 26, 2012 1:00 PM 14:21:17 CST … Few of us can clearly make out the form of history until it is well behind us. That helps us understand why we still have not settled on a common name for the decade now receding behind …
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Feb 25 2012
Rick Santorum: the apostle of America’s right By Paul Harris, Saturday 25 February 2012 … Few American presidential campaigns have ever adopted a totem as unlikely as the sweater vest. But Rick Santorum, the far-right social conservative now topping national polls in the Republican presidential nomination race, has embraced the unfashionable, dorky item of sleeveless …
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Feb 21 2012
‘In Homs we are all wading in blood’ By Jonathan Littell, Tuesday 21 February 2012 15.29 EST … The corpse, already waxy, wrapped in its shroud, a crown of plastic flowers around its head, lies in a corner of the mosque. Kneeling next to the coffin, a boy in tears, his brother, strokes his face …
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Feb 19 2012
You don’t have to believe in God to cherish the Church By Mary Ann Sieghart, Monday 20 February 2012 … The Church of England couldn’t hope for a better enemy than Richard Dawkins. Puffed-up, self-regarding, vain, prickly and militant, he displays exactly the character traits that could do with some Christian mellowing. In fact, he’s …
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Feb 18 2012
Anthony Shadid yearned for home By Jefferson Morley, Friday, Feb 17, 2012 5:42 PM 12:45:46 CST … Anthony’s Shadid’s now unbearably poignant book, “House of Stone,” opens with a scene of carnage that will be familiar to anyone who read his coverage of the wars of the Middle East. As a reporter for the Washington …
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