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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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