From the Editor: Love Thy Neighbor
Dennis Hoover Friday, 1 September 2006
The Golden Rule is an ethical thread running through virtually all the world's major faith traditions. In the Bible the principle originates in Leviticus 19:18, "Love your neighbor as yourself." In the Islamic tradition, the Sunnah teaches, "No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself." Notwithstanding this seeming consensus on neighborliness, however, the global neighborhood has become markedly unfriendly.
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