Forum (Forum & Focus)
Oct. 14, 2008
Prop 8 Would Codify the Kind of Intolerance We Fight Against Abroad
Prop 8 would amend the California Constitution to codify the kind of societal human rights violation that we've been fighting against in other countries, writes Scott Wm. Davenport. - Forum Column
FORUM COLUMN
By Scott Wm. Davenport Ever since the death of the prophet Muhammad in the year 632 - and the resulting dispute over his successor - problems have existed between the Shia and Sunni Muslims. For the last 40 years in Iraq, the governing regimes were composed mainly of Sunnis and, as a result, the Shia suffered much persecution. Since Saddam Hussein was unseated in 2003, the fledgling democracy of Iraq has struggled with elimin...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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