Opinion

Moderate Muslims and the voices of anti-semitism

Moderate Muslims and the voices of anti-semitism

Our local National Public Radio station recently replaced in the early Sunday morning hour its really good religious program ("Sound and Spirit") with a moderately good religious program ("Speaking of Faith"). Among the first segments broadcast was one featuring an extensive interview with an American Muslim apologist, Omid Safi, a professor at Colgate and the editor of a collection of essays entitled "Progressive Muslims." Professor Safi sounds like a most interesting and attractive fellow, spiritually imaginative and intellectually lithe, warm, humanistic.

OPINION | 10/22/2003

Dissecting the Princeton population: the undercover nerd

Princeton is full of nerds, and there is nothing we can do about it. In fact, the University atmosphere seems to encourage it.

OPINION | 10/22/2003

Conservatives favor dignity in campus sexuality debate

The 'Prince's' editorial board was correct; half the campus is in the closet on the issue of homosexuality.

OPINION | 10/21/2003

Attack on Americans hurts peace

Last Wednesday, three Americans were killed in the Gaza Strip in the first Palestinian terrorist attack specifically targeting American diplomats.

OPINION | 10/21/2003

Catholic AIDS strategy clear

It always amuses me that someone can trace every evil of society to the Catholic Church. Joseph Barillari's editorial titled "Condoms and the Church: A Well-intentioned But Deadly Myth" should substitute the phrase "Safe Sex: A Well-intentioned But Deadly Myth."It is ridiculous to blame the Catholic Church's stance on birth control for today's HIV epidemic.

OPINION | 10/21/2003

Broken windows, religion and the American League

Banners bearing emblems, slogans and symbols of loyalty and belief. Angry, painted faces displaying the colors of one's side.

OPINION | 10/21/2003

Make yours a 'rights protection life'

How appropriate. With reactionary pomp, the White House proclaimed last week "Marriage Protection Week," defining marriage exclusively as a "union between a man and a woman" and calling upon "the people of the United States to observe this week with appropriate programs, activities, and ceremonies." Appropriately, the Pride Alliance and LGBT Student Services hosted Awareness Week, and the Princeton Queer Radicals sponsored a love-in at Frist.

OPINION | 10/21/2003

Condoms and the church: a well-intentioned but deadly myth

We can stop the spread of HIV overnight. We can do it tonight, in fact. A complete, dead stop. Zero new infections.All we have to do is convince everyone to give up extramarital sex and injection drugs.Regrettably, it's undoubtedly harder to dissuade the peoples of the world from engaging in random acts of body-fluid-sharing than it is to invent and distribute vaccines to cure blood-borne infections.

OPINION | 10/20/2003

Rethinking feminism: What about the men?

Sexism! Instantly, women cock their pistols, men dive for cover and phrases like "70 cents to the dollar" and "female empowerment" come blazing forth like unchained Rottweilers.

OPINION | 10/20/2003

Letters to the editor

Last week's silence signals improvementRegarding 'Closeted conservatism' (Monday, Oct.

OPINION | 10/20/2003

Lessons of history for the U.N. presence in Iraq

Amidst the recent hullabaloo over Iraq, there was virtually no mention of a significant (and far from irrelevant) anniversary: July 27th marked fifty years since the end of the Korean War, a particularly brutal and messy conflict which pitched South Korea, the United States and a number of allies (including Britain, France, Turkey and even Colombia) against the armies of North Korea and communist China.

OPINION | 10/19/2003

Stopping to smell the leaves as we become seniors again

Autumn is the season of college admissions. Just as the leaves are sure to fall, so too are crowds of high school students sure to descend on campus, littering the walkways like the fallen foliage whose season they share.

OPINION | 10/19/2003

Closeted conservatism

As Gay Awareness Week unfolded on this campus last week, several guest writers, regular columnists and letters to the editor addressed important gay rights issues on this page; we published pieces on topics ranging from gay marriage to the Queer Radicals' "Love-In" to one writer's experience at the Toronto Pride Parade.The Opinion Board shares a very strong belief in the importance of gay rights.

OPINION | 10/19/2003

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