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...strategies to befriend simple people—a slow-witted figurehead, two tax cuts for the rich masquerading as generous lump-sum refunds for working folks and two crusades against the “evil” worshippers of Allah??the Bush administration sacrificed one of its best assets when it decided to make a big to-do about its alliance with the religious right. For two years the King of All Media galvanized a considerable audience of political dummies in the president’s support. But their differences on fundamental peacetime social issues like abortion...
...that the attention the author showered upon Bradley seemed justified. Rumors of the next great basketball star filled Princeton’s Dillon Gymnasium beyond capacity game after game when Bradley was a freshman, and McPhee wrote lustily of the “undergraduates who massed to praise Allah?? after the star returned from dominating the NCAA Tournament. Bradley sold out Madison Square Garden and filled seats just for his warm-ups. And so on. Fan reaction suggested that McPhee’s investment of energies made perfect sense...
...that stands out in the story for Muslims is that the Prophet actually signed the treaty with the grudging acceptance of his followers in Medina. In doing so, he made compromises, such as not even mentioning God, of not signing his name as “the Prophet of Allah?? (as was his custom in other treaties) nd of ignoring the property claims of Muslims driven out of Mecca by the Quraysh. Many Muslims in the Prophet’s time saw these concessions toward the Quraysh as humiliating, and yet the Prophet signed the treaty because...
...feel nothing but the deepest empathy for Afghanistan’s starving population. Besides food drops, it is important that we work to establish a successor regime to the Taliban. Muslims are being held hostage by sociopaths who, as President Bush intimated, “blaspheme the name of Allah?? and “hijack Islam itself.” The religion of Islam has been cast as a violent, destructive faith by such radical terrorists. Yet the terrorists’ tactics separate them from the vast majority of Muslims in the world. They are killers before they...
...feel nothing but the deepest empathy for Afghanistan’s starving population. Besides food drops, it is important that we work to establish a successor regime to the Taliban. Muslims are being held hostage by sociopaths who, as President Bush intimated, “blaspheme the name of Allah?? and “hijack Islam itself.” The religion of Islam has been cast as a violent, destructive faith by such radical terrorists. Yet the terrorists’ tactics separate them from the vast majority of Muslims in the world. They are killers before they...