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...Filtering is seemingly inconsistent with the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” he said. “It also [indicates] that the Internet may be an instrument of censorship, political restrictions, discipline or other state control. In this context, carefully documenting the specific details of the changes is arguably helpful to those who seek to study, analyze, and debate such policies...
...White House complained that the president was taken out of context. But Bush’s comment would be offensive in any context. He effectively accused Senate Democrats—who have been as of yet lukewarm in their criticism of Bush’s foreign policy initiatives—of being irresponsible, uninterested and unpatriotic. Such an unfair characterization effectively cuts off debate by branding all those who legitimately question White House policy as un-American...
...context makes this statistic even more astonishing. India is again in the throes of periodic insanity, with Hindu-Muslim conflict in the state of Gujarat reaching another crest of brutality. Gujarat has swayed on the edge of horror for months?from Godhra, early this year, where Hindu pilgrims were torched in a train by Muslims, to the gruesome aftermath in which innocent Muslims were butchered with what many saw as the government's tacit encouragement, to the temple in Gandhinagar where last week two terrorists massacred Hindu devotees, including women and children...
...bookstores and yoga centers from Berlin to Los Angeles where Barks' and other modernized versions of Rumi have found such an enthusiastic following these days, a certain tension is often missing. Barks' versions, Lewis claims, "teleport the poems of Rumi out of their cultural and Islamic context into the inspirational discourse of non-parochial spirituality." Cut free from the ground of orthodox Islamic belief from which they grew, the Persian poet's lyrical reports from the outer fringes of mystical experience risk becoming mere souvenirs of a far-off time and place?harmless ecstatic bonbons that soothe and mirror contemporary...
...most popular flavor of the moment, what would he make of it all? Very likely he would echo what Kabir Helminski, a practicing Sufi and another popular contemporary Rumi translator, has said about attempts to siphon off the insights of Rumi and other Sufi sages without addressing their Islamic context: "We cannot steal the fire. We must enter...