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Another news article that can prompt a relevant Enlightenment discussion
This Is a Religious War -
from NYTimes.co, an article that explores fundamentalism and finds it evident in both the Taliban of the 21st century and the Spanish Inquisition of the 16th century. This was published just a few weeks after the attacks of 9/11