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Freedom under FireSupporting Terry Jones’s Koran burning without qualification
Published in the May / June 2011 Humanist
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“Burn a Koran Day” and the Flames of ExtremismIt’s fair to say that the fifteen minutes of fame recently afforded to Terry Jones—the once-obscure Florida preacher with the misguided plan to burn copies of the Koran at his Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, on September 11—inadvertently
Published in the November / December 2010 Humanist
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Counterfeiting TraditionIn 2006 the government of Turkey launched an ambitious effort to rewrite the basic foundation of Islam in order to produce a kinder and gentler result. To appreciate why this ongoing program—known as the “hadith project”—is doomed to fail, it |
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