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Tehran, Iran - Recent events in the Middle East seem to justify scholar Samuel Huntington's rough view of racial purity and his resistance to intercultural encounters. He must be thrilled these days. War is a by-product of intellectual bankruptcy which presumes ingrained antagonisms between cultures.
Tehran, Iran - Hezbollah's impact on Lebanese politics is nothing new. It is a grassroots indigenous movement formed more than twenty-three years ago in reaction to the massacres of Sabra and Chatila -- Palestinian refugee camps -- by Ariel Sharon's army and the Phalangist forces in Lebanon. Hezbollah set out to rid Lebanon from foreign forces and their proxies.
Tehran, Iran - The comments of the Pope were a cause for astonishment, especially in a world busy debating the role of religion in politics. Joseph Alois Ratzinger has written extensively about the coexistence of religions and, as an admirer of Karl Rahner, he is known to be a keen student of new theology and of understandings of humanity and salvation outside the Catholic Church.
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