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"Oh how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together." Psalm 133
by Clifford F. Thies
The mosque at ground zero controversy gives us quite possibly a great opportunity to advance freedom in the world by dedicating ourselves to reciprocity. What we hope and pray for is respect for the religious freedom of Muslims, both Americans and visitors, in this country, in return for respect for the religious freedom of non-Muslims in Muslim countries.
Not that we expect all countries to immediately dis-establish religion or become secular. Indeed, it would be strange and somehow wrong to be in a Muslim country and not hear the call to prayer. But, social tolerance and civil liberties are marks of progress, and necessary for an open, global society. Besides, true religion comes from choice. The one, true God desires that we freely choose to accept his laws.
It is in this spirit that we, here at Libertarian Republican, share three images that we hope, represent the future of the Middle East both Israeli and Arab.
The first is Corporal Elinor Joseph of the Israeli Defense Force. Cpl Joseph, a combat medic, is the first female Arab to serve in the IDF. She is a Christian Arab. Her father served as a paratrooper in the IDF. Her hope is to bring a better and more peaceful life to all of her fellow Israelis. “I still believe that peace will come," she says, "and faith creates reality”
The second person is Houda Nonoo, the Ambassador of Bahrain to the United States, the first Jewish Ambassador from an Arab country. Bahrain has one of the world's oldest continuously-existing Jewish communities, although her own family moved to the country from Iraq about a hundred years ago.
The constitution of Bahrain proclaims Islam to be the offical religion of the country. However, Chrisitans, Jews, Hindus, and Sikhs practice their faith relatively free of government interference, own many places of worship, and enjoy social acceptance. On the negative side, some tensions exist between the minority Sunni and majority Shi'a of the country, but these tensions may be due more to disparities in income and priveledge than to religious differences.
The third person is Ishmael Khaldi, a Muslim and a Bedouin, and the first Muslim to rise to the rank of Consul in Israel's foreign service, being recently posted to San Francisco. Mr. Khaldi does not say everything is perfect in Israel. But, he believes the conflists are political and not really ethnic or religious. He is proud of his country and has dedicated his life to making things better. "The way is long." he says, "It's not easy."
Not easy indeed. But strive for peace we must.
Dr. Thies is a professor of economics and statistics at Shenandoah Univ. in Virginia
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Way up in the Great White North, beneath Canada’s Baffin Island, lies material from the very beginning of the planet.
The search for primordial stuff—rocks that have survived 4.5 billion years since the formation of the Earth without being changed by forces that shook and scrambled our planet—is one of geology’s long-running quests. In Nature this week, Matthew Jackson says he may have done it. Jackson’s team found lava rocks in Canada with a signature that matches that of the newly formed Earth, suggesting there is material below the snowy surface that has endured unchanged throughout the planet’s history.
They have the highest proportion of the isotope helium-3 relative to helium-4 of any rocks known. This suggests that the rocks came from a “primitive” region of Earth, as, unlike helium-4, helium-3 can’t be replenished and thus must have come from the original building blocks of the planet. What’s more, the ratio of two isotopes of the element neodymium match what geochemists would expect for a residue from Earth’s early ocean of molten magma [ScienceNOW].
It’s the magma pocket deep in the Earth’s interior that’s thought to be an unchanged remnant of the early, molten Earth, not the lava rocks it produced: Curiously, the surface rocks are only about 60 million years old. So if Jackson’s team is correct, this pocket of primordial mantle still fueled eruptions recently (in geologic terms). That’s a surprise:
“Even if a vestige of such material remained, it seems unlikely that it would be found in any samples from Earth’s surface or the shallow subsurface that are available to geologists,” observed David Graham of Oregon State University in Corvallis, who wrote a commentary in the same issue of Nature. “Yet that is what (this) new evidence suggests” [Discovery News].
What goes on deep down in the Earth is, as you’d imagine, difficult to prove. So after the question of whether Jackson is correct, there’s the question of how this primitive material survived and ended up where it did.
But regardless of how it happened, this ancient sample of the planet’s internal makeup will provide important information to geologists trying to piece together the early history of the Earth and its inner workings, Graham said [Los Angeles Times].
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