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On Wednesday, Pakistan's Independence Day, President Pervez Musharraf told the country that all the attackers directly involved in last week's attacks on Christians were either killed or arrested.

Persecution (and potential persecution):

• Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology slams attack on Christians (The Frontier Post, Pakistan)
  
  
• Religious persecution unchecked in Uzbekistan | U.S. sends aid to terror war ally despite abuses (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• The case for Islamic law | It's not only extremists who admire Islamic law. In Indonesia, a surprising number of moderate Muslims, worried about a collapse of moral values, would like to see a bigger role for Shari'ah (Far Eastern Economic Review)
  
  
• Also: A Malaysian duel over Islam (Far Eastern Economic Review)
  
  
• Also: Indonesia grapples with Islamic law | Lawmakers may have dropped plans, but Muslims still want Shari'ah (Associated Press)

Christianity and Islam:

• Muslims have kept watch over doors of Christianity's holiest shrine for centuries | Christian sects squabbling over stewardship of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre have never trusted one another with the key (Associated Press)
  
  
• The merchants of bigotry | Americans should start paying more attention to the zealots in their midst, who are sowing seeds of hatred (Editorial, The Hartford [Conn.] Courant)

Christians, Jews, and Israel:

• No Catholic mission to Jews | Tom Oden says he agrees with Catholic statement (UPI)
  
  
• Earlier: Jews Are Already Saved, Say U.S. Catholic Bishops (Weblog, Aug. 14, 2002)
  
  
• Jews, Christians rally for Israel | More than 1,000 demonstrators marched through the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem (Associated Press)
  
  
• Monks in Bethlehem fall victim to the 'peace' fence | In a grove of olive trees, under the burning sun just outside Bethlehem, for centuries Armenian monks have come to pray. From the olive trees, the monks make oil for their lamps in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of the crucifixion of Christ in Jerusalem. But not this year. (The London Independent)
  
  
• Christians aren't the enemy | I have not yet found any evidence that Christian conservatives threaten American Jews, but I have found plenty of evidence that they support Jews both in Israel and elsewhere. (Yechiel Eckstein, The Wall Street Journal)

Crime:

• Water stolen from church | During the past two months, an undisclosed church noticed a rise in its water bill from $100 to $800 a month but couldn't find a leak in its plumbing, Sgt. Norman Horton said. Then, this past weekend, a church member caught someone from a Roxboro well-drilling company filling a water tank with the church's water supply (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• St. Pat's shock-jock inter-lewd | Virginia couple was arrested yesterday for public lewdness after allegedly having sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral as part of a radio stunt that outraged parishioners and church officials (New York Post)
  
  
• Town shocked as minister is charged with killing wife | It was a scene everyone in this small East Texas community had hoped would never happen (Houston Chronicle)

Politics and law:

• Australia's Prime Minister has faith in the God squad | Religion is playing a stronger role in politics as family values push economic issues to the edge (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Bush vs. women | The president isn't as courageous as conservative Christians when it comes to protecting vulnerable women overseas (The New York Times)

Lawsuits:

• Federal appeals panel won't reinstate lawsuit against movie, video game makers | 'We find that it is simply too far a leap from shooting characters on a video screen … to shooting people in a classroom,' judges rule in Kentucky case. (Associated Press)
  
  

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August (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46