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Not Either/Or
French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently declared that multiculturalism has failed. When asked during a television interview about the policy advocating that societies welcome and foster distinct cultural and religious groups, he answered that the existing policy had been a failure. He isn’t the first to say this, other leaders or ex-leaders have said the same…
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No Choice But Hunger
I read about a woman in Bangladesh. The only thing she owns is the sari she is wearing. She has a son who is a drug addict and because the aid agencies classify her as having an able bodied family member—his addiction and his absence are not factored in in the way they evaluate the…
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Something Important
A short while ago, in an attempt to fight anti-Semitism and be a cultural bridge, a delegation of some 150 Muslim dignitaries went to Auschwitz to pay tribute to the millions of Jews and others who were killed there. The delegation which included people from Morocco, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq also had rabbis, Holocaust survivors,…
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