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Martin Luther King Jr. What's in a NameEditor's Note: This video comes from I-Reporter seeitnow. They went to Germany to explore the connection between Martin Luther and Martin Luther King Jr. Read the full storyAtheist Ricky Gervais thanks God at Golden GlobesAt the 68th Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais takes on the "Sex and the City" cast and thanks God for making him an atheist. Egypt's sectarian strifeCoptic Christians are on edge in Egypt, after a spate of extremist violence. Egyptian TV's Shahira Amin reports.
Man sentenced to death for killing ChristiansA man accused of killing Christians after a Christmas mass a year ago in Egypt has been sentenced to death, Egypt's state-run Al Ahram newspaper reported Sunday. Mohamed El-Kamouny, one of three people accused in the targeted killing of members of the Coptic Christian sect after a Christmas mass, is the first to be sentenced. Seven people were killed - six Copts and a Muslim guard - in the January 2010 incident outside a church in the southern town of Naga Hammadi. Coptics observe Christmas Day on January 7. The judge who sentenced El-Kamouny postponed the sentencing of the other two defendants until next month, Al Ahram reported. The sentencing comes in the wake of a new round of concerns over the security of Copts in Egypt. Read the full story here about the sentence for the man accused of killing Christians in Egypt. Our Take: Is alleged Arizona shooter evil or mentally ill?By Michael First and Jerome C. Wakefield, Special to CNN At last week's memorial service in Tucson for the victims of the Arizona shooting, President Obama said that “scripture tells us that there is evil in the world, and that terrible things happen for reasons that defy human understanding. “ It is tempting to view this heinous crime as purely an act of evil, with its senseless loss of innocent lives. However, as Obama went on to say, “we have to guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.” In one sense, any terrible harms that befall us are “evils in the world.” But are the suspected gunman’s alleged actions best understood as human evil, in light of evidence that the suspect has a mental disorder? Whether a particular hurtful behavior, like the taking of a life, can be considered evil depends on the context in which it occurs and the intentions of the person committing the behavior. Taking someone’s life because that person was about to kill one’s child would not be considered an act of evil. For a particular behavior to be considered evil, the person committing the act must be in a position to knowingly make a moral choice between doing something wrong and doing something right, choosing the bad action over the good. |
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