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The escalating violence in the Russian province of Dagestan--where late last week Islamic militants from across the Chechen border seized several villages and declared Dagestan an independent Islamic state--was described by the St. Petersburg Times as "the other crisis."
Privatization of religion--better known as the separation of church and state--was our founders' prescription for avoiding Europe's religious wars.