Jeffry Mallow
By Jeffry Mallow
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News Denmark Wants To Rehabilitate Islamic Radicals — But Is It Failing?
The Copenhagen terrorist attacks: What do they mean? The murder of two Danes, one in a cafe where Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks was attending a free speech forum, and one at the Copenhagen synagogue, says it all. Islamists draw no distinctions, not even for countries where Muslims have been welcomed. Nor are they driven by…
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Opinion Repairing the World Has Torn Us From Our Senses
‘Give me the strength to change the things I can, the courage to accept the things I can’t, and the wisdom to know the difference.” This mantra has been reproduced ad nauseam on greeting cards and T-shirts, but it nevertheless provides a counterbalance to that other overexposed locution, tikkun olam. Literally “repairing the world,” tikkun…
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News Cartoons of Prophet Spark Boycott by Arabs
Denmark has become, much to its tolerant citizens’ bewilderment, the target of an international Muslim boycott, in protest of what international Muslim groups call Denmark’s “aggressive campaign waged against Islam and its prophet.” “Boycott” actually understates the case. In the past week alone, crowds of angry Muslims in several Arab countries burned the Danish flag,…
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Opinion Airport Insecurity
Ann is a 64-year-old grandmother with an artificial hip, and a 10-inch scar to prove it. The titanium in her prosthetic sets off metal detectors every time she passes through an airport. Ann presents a card from her physician attesting to the implant. The security officials ignore her card and single her out every time…
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Opinion Europe at a ‘Cross’-roads
Scarcely noticed in this country, the European Union took a giant step forward last month toward the consolidation of Europe as a unitary power, with the approval at a mid-June summit in Brussels of a draft E.U. constitution. The constitution, which still faces the enormous hurdle of ratification by all 25 member states, contains one…
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