Makes perfect sense to me.....

     Although I am an atheist, I have argued for over twenty-five years that true multiculturalism would make scholarly study of comparative religions the core curriculum of university humanities programs everywhere.  No society or civilization can be understood without reference to its religious roots.  Every student should graduate with a basic familiarity with the history, sacred texts, codes, rituals, and shrines of the major world religions - Hinduism, Buddhism, Judeo-Christianity, and Islam.  Indeed, what could be more urgent, in this time of terrorism, that to know exactly what the Quran says about jihad and how those verses have been interpreted in multiple ways in Muslim tradition?

-Camille Paglia, from Provocations