News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sun Jul 27, 2008 3:20 AM EDT If our culture was one of tolerance, enlightenment, criticism and rationality, we would not have Osama Bin Laden, Hassan Nasrallah, Muqtada al Sadr, [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and the hardliner sheikhs and sectarian statements and those who become enslaved by all this whilst erasing their selves and minds. What is happening is simply an expression of the crisis that afflicts the collective mind and conscience in our part of the world, and it highlights more than ever the critical need for...
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