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The plight of Iraq Christians

Fadi has had it with Iraq. At his familys home in Baghdad, the Christian university student (whose last name has been withheld to protect his family) elaborates in fluent English. There is no future for Christians here, he says.

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Unfathomable Zealotry

What strikes me about the threat to execute Abdul Rahman, the Afghan who converted to Christianity, is not that Afghanistan remains deeply medieval and not even remotely the democracy that George W. Bush would like it to be, but that with the exception of the (largely) Christian West, the rest of the world has been mostly silent.

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Cartoons and the clash of civilizations

Harvard professor Samuel Huntingtons clash of civilizations hypothesis a provocative preview of a twenty-first century in which religiously shaped cultural conflicts define the fault-lines of world politics created a considerable intellectual stir when it was first published in 1993.

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The Da Vinci Deception

The Da Vinci Deception breaks down in simple terms the basic pattern of lies and falsehoods Brown deploys in The Da Vinci Code so that the reader can clearly see the clockwork going on behind this novel.

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Blasphemy

All this fuss over blasphemy got us thinking. We riot in the West, but not over religion. Racism, economic inequality, and environmental concerns can all whip a crowd into discontent even violence. But blasphemy?

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C.S. Lewis in the Dock

In the November issue of The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik, often an interesting and intelligent writer, belittles Lewis's work in a way I can describe only as catty.

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