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Clash of Ideas Should Be Addressed
The age of terror, it seems, has sprouted an era of dialogue. A host of conferences designed to bring together East and West are cropping up everywhere.
Never before, perhaps, have so many talked so optimistically about so serious a problem. But behind all the words is one unspoken disagreement that may imperil any chance for progress.
My direct encounter with this optimism took place at a high-profile get-together, the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, in mid-April. Organized by the Qatar government and the Brookings Institution, the conference was packed with more than 150 scholars and leaders from all sides who diligently discussed both the needs and the means for achieving democracy, reforms and renaissance in the Muslim world. Strikingly, there was hardly a Muslim speaker who did not tie the implementation of such reforms to progress toward settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Pearls
I\’ve been hearing a lot about Bernard Henri Levy\’s book, \”Who Killed Daniel Pearl?\” but I hadn\’t heard what Daniel Pearl\’s father thought of it.\n\nSo I phoned him.\n\nI knew Judea Pearl would have an opinion, and would not shrink from expressing it. After suffering shock and grief that no parent can imagine, he and Daniel\’s mother, Ruth, found the strength to turn grief to good works, to make Daniel\’s legacy of tolerance and understanding manifest in a world increasingly hostile to both.\n\nAmong those good works is The Daniel Pearl Foundation (danielpearl.org), which hosts a series of world music concerts as a way to use music as a bridge to cultural understanding.
A Voice Silenced: Daniel Pearl
Up until the very last moment, the family of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl never lost hope that he would be released by his Pakistani kidnappers and return safely.\n\n
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