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Article: A holy and explosive alliance

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August 26, 1994
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THE UN Conference on Population and Development, due to open in Cairo on 5 September, is the most important world conference ever. It is also, by no coincidence, the most contentious; so contentious as to involve serious security risks for the host country, Egypt. Finally, this conference will embody the greatest ideological debate in the world today: between those who hold values derived from the Enlightenment, and believers in supernaturally revealed certainties. The principal challenge to the Enlightenment, both at the conference and in its wake, will be posed by the emerging alliance between official Catholicism and fundamentalist Islam.

The importance of the Cairo conference is that it ...

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