Posted on 02/24/2010 5:23:55 PM PST by Tigen
(IsraelNN.com) America's commitment to portraying itself as a secular Western country is feeding religious extremism and inhibiting America's ability to promote peace, according to a report presented to the White House on Tuesday by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
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http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/chicago_council_board_directors.php
http://www.thechicagocouncil.org/global_chicago.php
What religion are they talking about? The religion of pieces?
This article is based on the WaPo story, which makes it clear that this is about promoting Islam:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022305103.html
“”U.S. officials have made efforts to address the God gap, especially in dealings with Islamic nations and groups. The CIA established an office of political Islam in the mid-1980s. Congress passed the International Religious Freedom Act in 1998 to make religious freedom a U.S. foreign policy priority. During the second Bush administration, the Defense Department rewrote the Army’s counterinsurgency manual to take account of cultural factors, including religion.
The Obama administration has stepped up the government’s outreach to a wider range of religious groups and individuals overseas, trying to connect with people beyond governments, said a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The effort, he said, is more deliberate than in the past: “This issue has senior-level attention.”
He noted that Obama appointed a special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference and created a new Muslim outreach position in the State Department. In the past year, he said, embassies in Muslim-majority countries have held hundreds of meetings with a broad range of people not involved in government.””
I just can’t stands no more!
America's commitment to portraying itself as a secular Western country is feeding religious extremism and inhibiting America's ability to promote peace, according to a report presented to the White House on Tuesday by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.Thanks Tigen.
This is largely the same group of people who promoted militant secularism in the first place.
“There is a symbiotic relationship between religion and contemporary politics: each influences and exacerbates each other.”
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