Long before Cardinal Ratzinger became Benedict XVI, the great student of history and human nature was warning the West of the gathering Eurabian storm. But only when Time notices the "hard-knuckle intellect with a taste for blunt talk and interreligious confrontation" is this voice in the wilderness "suddenly" heard:
We guess it depends upon what your definition of "few" is, not to mention your capacity for surprise.Few people saw this coming. Nobody truly expected Benedict to be a mere caretaker Pope -- his sometimes ferocious 24-year tenure as the Vatican's theological enforcer and John Paul's right hand suggested anything but passivity. But this same familiarity argued against surprises.
Ah yes...the "Pauline Kael" rule of journalism: If our elite group has never heard of it, it doesn't matter....
And another great university is bribed into allowing an "Islamic center"...
Harvard University just was bribed...oops I mean, received a grant, to fund a center. Presumably, like the center that they fund in Georgetown, it will address problems including "American policy in the Muslim World"...I wrote about Georgetown HERE..
Islamic women meet to try to establish an intellectual basis for modifying Islamic law.
The strong justice ideas in Islam will be the place to start...most westerners don't know that Islam granted women rights at a time when many countries gave no rights to women at all...
And Happy feet won over James Bond...why not. Who wants a "realistic" and pouty Bond when you can have humor and music?
Psst: Want to buy a kidney? Zenit, a Catholic news service, quotes the prices...(Go to 11-20-06)...
The group behind the press release has been working against slavery since 1218 A.D...back then, Muslim pirates captured Christians from southern Europe, and the Turks from Eastern Europe and the Ukraine for slaves...indeed, St. Vincent DePaul was a slave for awhile...and the Americans fought the Barbary wars over the issue...another fact few Westerners know.
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