The execution and assassination of suicidal murderers cannot be termed as justice.
Nina Burleigh | Posted 01.23.2012
The Italian city of Otranto's obsession with its 600-year-old victimization presents a cautionary tale about what New York might be in six centuries if tragedy -- and not our glorious, universal spirit -- became the city's binding legend.
Posted 06.27.2011
By John Farmer Jr. Religion News Service (RNS) "Are you a Yankee or a rebel?" That question, asked of me at recess by a ring of third- and f...
Rudy Adler | Posted 05.25.2011
We've created a special online memorial to the Egyptian martyrs. A place to remember their sacrifices and know that these are not just numbers.
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011
Suicide martyrdom operations have now become so commonplace that as a viewership we are badly inured to them. Its worth remembering that the ideology supporting fanatical attacks may begin long before adulthood.
Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 05.25.2011
Many British Muslims fervently erase their ethnicity with ritualistic religiosity, deliberately choosing distinction from that of their parents'. They do so in a desperate search of politicized Muslim identity, with little understanding of either Islam, or politics.
Hans Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
Not long ago, a passing familiarity with Bible verses, a flair for rhetoric, and hunger for a following could be enough to land someone in a small-tow...
Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011
A 2005 lecture delivered in Australia by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leader of the effort to build a mosque near Ground Zero, explains suicide bombing...
Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011
Linda Ferri uses the story of Saint Cecilia of Rome to portray the universality -- across centuries, religions, and cultures -- of the search for meaning in life.
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
Neda, I met you on video like the millions of people around the world this past weekend. In your silence, you have spoken to me louder than any voice ever has screaming for liberty and justice.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011
The Iranian Republic requires American antagonism to uphold its regional influence and its stranglehold on the Iranian people - the United States should deprive it of this gift.
Michael Mungai | Posted 11.11.2011