April 28, 2003

A Tall Order

A powerful statement and true, of course, through American and democratic, western eyes, but not necessarily embraced by the world's cultures and religious sects. Each group below would probably define freedom differently. It would be a wonderful exercise to know how each would define freedom. Is it political freedom, or religious freedom, or economic freedom?

"Whether you're Sunni or Shia or Kurd or Chaldean or Assyrian or Turkemen or Christian or Jew or Muslim, no matter what your faith, freedom is God's gift to every person in every nation," Bush said.

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