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The region's relentless cycle of violence continued last week when the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was destroyed by a 220-lb. car bomb. The ferocious blast killed at least 28 people and injured 235. Lebanon's Islamic Jihad terrorist group took responsibility, then later denied it. In...
In much of the world, though, for a long time, nationalism and tribalism will remain intractable forces, especially in the Middle East, where they are ! mixed with deep religious passions, hatreds and dreams of revenge. In the long run, only the promise of economic progress, much as it may be...
The irrepressible religious impulse -- the revenge of the sacred, as it has been called -- is perhaps even more clearly displayed outside our own country. Note the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, the strength of Hinduism, both often accompanied by violence. Throughout the Third World, Christian churches, especially the Evangelicals, are gaining...
Currier House Master William A. Graham, a professor of the history of religion and Islamic studies, suggests that departments start teaching about one-quarter of their courses in the houses.
There were obviously differences among those cases. Castro had the backing of another, now deceased superpower. Ho was a nationalist waging a civil war, as well as a Kremlin ally waging an ideological one. Khomeini was the avatar of Islamic rage against the West. But they also had something in...