6/4     Wow.  Christians warned for preaching to Muslims, because it's a hate
        crime?
        http://csua.org/u/lpd
        \_ "A West Midlands Police spokesman said an investigation into the
            complaint had concluded that the PCSO had acted 'with the best of
            intentions' when he 'intervened to diffuse a heated argument
	...

12/17   Excellent article on religion in politics, tolerance, and multi-
        culturalism.
        http://urltea.com/2dju?weeklystandard.com
        http://csua.org/u/kac  [urltea has been flaky. -op]
        \_ instead of stuff like http://urltea.com, can't we use some sort of standard
           command-line compressor/decompressor? Some reversible hashfunction.
	...

12/10   Are there equivalence to the Catholic Pope for Mormons, Muslims,
        Jewish, etc?
        \_ no.
        \_ Definitely not for Judaism though many Jewish sects/degrees of
           orthodoxy have one or more groups of Rabbis who are seen as sort of
           community elders.  They are closer in some respect to Cardinals in
	...

12/6    About "While Europe Slept"
        Having recently published an indictment of Christian fundamentalist
        intolerance in the U.S. (Stealing Jesus), New York native Bawer
        relocated to Europe with his Norwegian partner in 1998 and found an
        even more dangerous strain of religious and cultural bigotry ensnaring
        Western Europe. A swarming menace called radical Islam, he writes,
	...

11/27   http://csua.org/u/k36 (NYTimes)
        More Muslim riots in Paris--80 police injured
        \_ "The violence was set off by the deaths of two teenagers on a
            motorbike who were killed in a crash with a police car Sunday
            night. The scene, with angry youths targeting the police mostly
            with firebombs, rocks and other projectiles, was reminiscent of
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