"The traditional paradigm was that mothers who love their children want them to live in peace, marry and produce grandchildren. Now there is a new image of mothers urging their children to die, and then celebrating the martyrdom of their suicidal sons and daughters by distributing sweets and singing wedding songs. More and more young women...are strapping bombs to their (sometimes pregnant) bellies, because they have been taught to love death rather than life." ("Worshippers of Death," The Wall Street Journal; read more).
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Finding Jefferson: A Lost Letter, a Remarkable Discovery, and the First Amendment in an Age of Terrorism
Contemplating whether the government could censor imams whose preaching might incite terrorism, Dershowitz wonders what Thomas Jefferson would say about where to draw the appropriate line, between dangerous speech and harmful conduct. Based in part on his reading of Jefferson, Dershowitz concludes that we ought not to censor the speech of even the most violent religious leaders. Echoing Jefferson, he says that liberty is dangerous and adds that in any case censorship would not prevent either violence or incitement to it. (from Publisher's Weekly; read more)
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