“America has a long history of learning from some of the mistakes made in Europe when it comes to religious toleration and liberty. Here we have yet another opportunity to do so. Let’s not miss it”:
- Anti-Mosque Sentiment in America: Lessons from Europe? (Huffington Post)
With stocks in Indonesia JKSE up about 20 percent in time for Ramadan, a University of New Hampshire study draws connections between the greater optimism of the holy month of Ramadan and business:
A “two-date solution?” “Fair trade” campaigners suggest British-Muslims boycott both Israeli dates and dates grown by Palestinians in the West Bank as well, in protest of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, and the conditions of Palestinian workers there:
“The international community needs to realize that its current and previous policies on Somalia have largely strengthened religious extremism and Somalis’ distrust of the West,” says Kisiangani Emmanuel, a researcher at the South Africa-based Institute for Global Dialogue:
- More Troops for Somalia Ignores Lessons of ‘Black Hawk Down,’ Is Not a Solution, Experts Say (Los Angeles Times)
U.S. soldier reflects that when he feels “anger metastasize into prejudice” he reminds himself that “it’s way too easy to get sloppy in our thinking and extend our anger over terrorism to Muslims in general”:
- War On Terror’s Other Cost: Undeserved Anger At All Muslims (Christian Science Monitor)
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