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Fighting for the Soul of Islam

There is an interesting article in U.S. News & World Report. Here is an excerpt and link:

In St. Petersburg, the Secular Islam Summit, sponsored by a humanist organization called the Center for Inquiry, featured Muslim speakers who ranged from angry ex-believers to devout reformers. They differed sharply on particulars, but all shared the conviction that Islam must be compatible with secular democracy. Their closing manifesto, “The St. Petersburg Declaration,” affirmed the separation of mosque and state, gender equality in personal and family law, and unrestricted critical study of Islamic traditions.

Sun setting on a once proud England?

Where is the nation that turned the humiliating retreat to Dunkirk into a victorious evacuation under fire? Where is the ally that drove Rommel from North Africa and ploughed ashore with us at Normandy? Where is the nation that held fast with the Berlin Brigade, surrounded by the Soviet horde? Where is the England that stood watch over the Rhine alongside America throughout the Cold War?

Against the envy of less happier lands
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm
This England

— from There’ll Always Be an England

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