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Religion and Politics in Canada is always a hot topic in a pre-election period. For an informed look at how the Canadian government should reconsider the role of religion in our country, see the article by Iain Benson, Executive Director of the Centre for Cultural Renwal titled: "Taking a Fresh Look at Religion and Public Policy in Canada: The Need for a Paradigm Shift."
http://www.culturalrenewal.ca and click on "Federal Study on Religion and Public Policy"
At long last, the report from Gerard Bouchard and Charles Taylor on reasonable accommodation in Quebec has been released, and provides a wealth of story ideas for reporters covering religion in Canada. For an abridged pdf of the full report, check out this webpage for "Building the Future: A Time for Reconciliation". Bear in mind that the Commission was launched out of concerns in Quebec over Muslim headscarves, Sikh kirpans, and the possibility of sharia law coming to Canada….so the implications of accommodating religious practices, values, traditions and rights are analyzed within the framework of Canadian society and national values. Here is the website:
http://www.accommodements.qc.ca
Article Details
Article Added On: January 27, 2005 - over 3 years ago
Title: Seymour Hersh: "We've Been Taken Over by a Cult"
Author: Mayumi Futamura
Publication Date: January 01, 2005 - over 3 years ago
Faith Groups:
Other
Themes:
religion in politics
Abstract: Speaking at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalists, said the U.S. government has "been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government."
January 27, 2005
Speaking at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalists, said the U.S. government has "been taken over basically by a cult, eight or nine neo-conservatives have somehow grabbed the government."
There's a lot of anxiety and tremendous sense of fear inside the professional military and intelligence people because they know what is really going on, said Hersh in the speech, aired in the radio show DemocracyNow! on Jan. 26, 2005.
In Washington, "We are nowhere, the press is nowhere. The congress is nowhere. The military is nowhere. Every four-star General I know is saying, 'Who is going to tell them we have no clothes?' Nobody is going to do it. Everybody is afraid to tell Rumsfeld anything. That's just the way it is. It's a system built on fear. It's not lack of integrity, it's more profound than that. ... It's a system that's completely been taken over -- by cultists."
The new bill, which was provoked by the 9/11 committee, consolidates "an awful lot of power in the Pentagon." Hersh warned. It gives Rumsfeld the right to do things that he has been wanting to do--manhunting and killing "them" before "they" kill us, as Peter said.
"'They did it to us. We
