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There haven't been many opinion pieces on this yet. The only one Weblog has seen so far is in the New York Post. "As usual, the silence is deafening" from Saudi Arabia and other Muslims. "The plain fact is that fundamentalist Muslim intolerance of other faiths is the deadliest, most destabilizing force in the world today," the paper says.

Bishop Atallah Hana:

• In the name of the fathers, and of the fired | An interview with Atallah Hana (Ha'aretz)
  
  
• Earlier: Greeks Gag Pro-Terrorism Priest (Weblog, July 15, 2002)
  
  
• Earlier: We Support Suicide Bombing, Says Greek Orthodox 'Spokesman' (Weblog, June 21, 2002)

Education:

• Pennsylvania eyes reducing home-school filings | State lawmakers will soon decide whether to loosen the state's 14-year-old home-schooling law, which critics say requires "countless hours" of tallying at-home instruction (The Washington Times)
  
  
• School's out | Christian leaders who once told parents to send their children to public schools to be "witnesses" to "the salt of the earth" now warn that those schools are unsafe and are agents of moral decay (The Washington Times)

• End to Islamic book lawsuit sought | University asks judge to dismiss suit that seeks to block the school from assigning students to read a book on Islam (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Understanding, not indoctrination | The author of Approaching the Qur'an speaks out on the controversy at UNC (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Also: A timely subject—and a sore one | UNC draws fire, lawsuit for assigning book on Islam (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Also: Lawmakers oppose UNC reading plan | A committee votes to bar funding for an assignment involving a book on the Quran (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C)

Interfaith relations:

• Feel-good interfaith events may paper over deep differences | But members of different religious traditions shouldn't resort to demonizing others, either, as we remember Sept. 11 (Charles Haynes, Freedom Forum)
  
  
• Franklin Graham speaks out on Islam | "I have many Muslim friends, but I want the people of this country to know that the god of Islam is not the Christian God." (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Also: CAIR: 'Franklin Graham smears Islam again' | Says Koran teaches violence (Press release)

Witchcraft:

• For spellbinding soccer, the Juju Man's on the ball | Across Africa, juju men do a brisk business in the soccer season trying to influence the action on the field (The New York Times)
  
  
• Earlier: It's Soccer, Not Quidditch | Witch doctors and red devils populate the game of soccer (Christianity Today, May 17, 2002)
  
  
• Also: Supernatural suspicions on rise | Hundreds of women, men and children in the Central African Republic are charged every year with practicing witchcraft, a crime punishable by execution or imprisonment (The Washington Times)

Crime and violence:

• Pastor tells why abducted girls went on TV | The two girls kidnapped last week in California agreed to give a television interview on Monday out of a conviction that their story could help other young women (The New York Times)
  
  
• Three Yemenis sentences over blowing off Anglican church | Fourth man found not guilty in 2001 attack (ArabicNews.com)
  
  
• Priest shot dead in South Africa | Suspected robber escaped. (SAPA)
  
  
• Court overturns death penalty in '80 murder | Killer's rights were violated when prosecutor told the jury to ignore his religious conversion, panel rules (Los Angeles Times)

Persecution:

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August (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46