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stcynic | January 19, 2006A potentially important meeting took place last month in Mecca, a meeting involving the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a group of leaders from 57 predominately Muslim nations. It was important because it was the largest and most important gathering of Muslim leaders to unequivocally condemn terrorism and extremism, and to call for an Islamic renaissance. The statement issued at the end of this conference could be the seed out of which grows a serious and global Muslim resistance to the forces of extremism and terror.
The Mecca Declaration, read out at the end of the summit's final…
stcynic | January 16, 2006Josh Claybourn has a post up about today being Martin Luther King day. I am very much like him in that I cannot listen to King's "I Have A Dream" speech without getting goosebumps. It is one of the most inspirational speeches you will ever hear (for a realvideo clip, click here), made more so in my view because of his invocation of the Declaration of Independence as a promissory note. My favorite passage is below the fold.
So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote…
stcynic | January 16, 2006Jason Kuznicki has a post up about Iran hosting a conference on the holocaust and urging people to be "open-minded" about recent comments by their clearly insane President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the holocaust was a myth. And he has it precisely right that the notion of Iran, a nation that has been killing dissidents and crushing freedom for the last 50 years (since at least our collosal foreign policy mistake of 1953), calling for open-mindedness is utter hypocrisy and a fraud. But it makes me wonder if perhaps Larry Darby would like to attend this conference. I know he's an atheist and…