Tag: Faith and terror

Denis MacShane, member of the British House of Commons and former Europe Minister writes in the Washington Post of a new upsurge of anti-semitism in

Rwandans used to be very proud of their country’s trust in God. There was a saying about wherever a person travels, he or she should “make sure to come to sleep in Rwanda,” because of the perception of safety. That all changed in 2004. “God went and left and never came back.”

A coalition of more than 125 religious organizations, US National Religious Campaign Against Torture, has called on the US government to forswear the use of torture without exception asking whether the recent executive order is a real prohibition.

The Washington Post “On Faith” blog this week will focus on Islam, with a wide diversity of Islamic scholars from around the world participating.

Giles Fraser asks what is to be learned from recent terrorist attacks in the UK: “Perhaps this: that the most dangerous people in the world are those who are absolutely convinced of their own moral virtue and innocence. It is not the scoundrel who is responsible for the darkest moral evil in the world, but the person who is assured of his or her own virtue.”