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  • Free Will0

    British scholar Roger Smith, in his book Being Human (Columbia University Press), maintains that "the notion of self-creation and the notion of freedom are intimately connected." This idea is evident when he quotes modern author Iris Murdoch as saying: "Our freedom is not just a freedom to choose and act differently, it is also a

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  • Set Free By Truth0

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the controversial author of Infidel, her improbable but true autobiography. A Somali-born Muslim woman, she became a member of the Dutch Parliament. As the title of her book implies, after growing up in a world that condones the physical abuse of women, practices honor killing, female genital mutilation, and often marries

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  • Religious Killing Threatens Religion0

    Aqsa Parvez was just 16 when her father, Muhammad Parvez, murdered her.1 Allegedly it was for her audacity to refuse his injunction that she wear the hijab, a Muslim head scarf. According to Aqsa's friends, Aqsa had been at odds with her father and other members of the family over the issue for some time.2

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  • Telling It Like It Is0

    There's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on in Blount County, Tennessee, where folks seem hardly able to open their mouths or tap their keyboards without retracting their statements shortly thereafter. At the center of this tempest is Judge W. Dale Young, who presided in three related cases—related in that they all involved women and in

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  • Torture and Religious Liberty0

    Torture is a demonic outbreak of radical evil at the heart of the social contract between the individual and the state. In our time it is usually the product of religious hatred, and is typically supported by people who believe in religious war. It shouldn't surprise us, then, that those who torture would use attacks

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  • A Matter of Standing0

    A sharply divided Supreme Court in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation held that President Bush's faith-based initiatives could not be challenged in federal court as a prohibited state establishment of religion. Hein said nothing about the merits of the underlying challenge, but relied instead on the constitutional rule that denies taxpayers "standing" to sue.

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