The Rev. Rick Warren of Saddleback Church will hold back-to-back public conversations this Saturday, Aug. 16, with the two presumptive presidential\ncandidates, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain. The conversations, on the topic of \”Compassion and Leadership,\” will be broadcast at 8 p.m. on CNN
Like his father, Daniel Pipes has a reputation for bluntness and a willingness to go against conventional wisdom — both in the academy and elsewhere. Whereas Richard Pipes sounded the alarm against appeasing the Soviets, Daniel Pipes preaches against working with radical Muslims, no matter how law-abiding, scholarly or open-minded they might appear.
\”Both sides ought to be properly taught,\” President George W. Bush told reporters in Texas Aug. 1, \”so people can understand what the debate is about. Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought…. You\’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes.\”
On July 18, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon festively proposed to \”all the Jews of France\” \”to move to Israel immediately … because in France today, one of the wildest forms of anti-Semitism is spreading.\”
Sharon is wrong — not in his concern about a real rise in anti-Semitism in France, but because he explains it too simplistically.
Ten percent of the French population is of Muslim origin. Most are not fundamentalists who feel solidarity with the Hamas suicide bomb campaigns.
David Klinghoffer\’s biography of the patriarch Abraham rides on a new wave of interest in the Bible, and a growing sense of the Abrahamic heritage that Christians, Jews and Muslims share.
The idea is supposed to make me tingle warmly: While I sit in my home here in Jerusalem enjoying the Friday evening calm, thousands of Christian Coalition supporters will be gathering at the Ellipse in Washington to proclaim solidarity with Israel.
The Kurdish father living in Sweden kills his daughter because she dishonored the family when she refused the marriage he arranged for her; Andrea Yates kills her children to spare them from her fundamentalist vision of Hell;
What a great week this has been for liberals. If it does nothing else, Election \’98 makes it OK to use \”L\” word again. I love it — it is so much more descriptive of hope and dream than the neutered word \”moderate.\” Liberals have been abused on both the left (by multiculturalists) and right (by fundamentalists) for so long that it will take us a while to reconsider the beauty and dignity of its expression. Liberal is who we are, even if L.A. Times\’ columnist Bob Scheer doesn\’t fathom why, defining a liberal as one who votes against self-interest. Not true.
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