Is There a New Face of Jihad?

Published: December 10, 2007, 12:05 pm

Is there a new face to Jihad--which, by now, we are all aware means some sort of life-struggle addressed by Islam-- the ugly face of which has been featured for several years now on the covers of weekly news magazines? The above picture, from a story featured today today at Drudge (showing the placard "Live Free or Die,") is a group of students at Tehran University who are protesting the policies of failed blogger, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran. "Live Free or Die" is, of course, the motto of the State of New Hampshire. Pretty boring photo, huh?Nearby Pakistan also has a number of students and members of "civil society" (a kind of Germanic concept for us Americans) who are demonstrating on a daily basis for fundamental human rights.Today is the UN's Universal Human Rights Day, the anniversary of the Universal Declaration. The Declaration will look pretty familiar to anyone in the US, but apparently is more acceptable to the world without the American Brand on it. Last April,

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