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...bend of the reinforced steel installed in the cement ceiling of the gallows. During a recent round of executions, on Sept. 6, the rope snapped after 12 hangings, sending a condemned man plummeting 15 ft. through the trap door onto the hard concrete floor below. Miraculously, he survived. "Allah saved me!" he shouted. "Allah saved me!" For 40 minutes, prison guards, officials and witnesses engaged in heated arguments over whether or not to interpret the broken rope as divine intervention...
...hanged from the same gallows used for common criminals. That could change for security reasons, says a U.S. lawyer working closely with the court, but even a technical snafu probably won't be enough to save him now. Remember the man who slipped the noose, believing Allah had saved him? His reprieve didn't last long. "We hanged him," says an Iraqi official who watched as prison guards took down his body and wheeled it into the adjacent refrigerated morgue. "We followed...
...FACE It's impossible to say what Allah looks like, but the Koran is said to reveal his 99 attributes (often referred to as his 99 names, such as "the Majestic" and "the Timeless"). Each is embodied in a different superhero in a new comic-book series called The 99, created by a Kuwaiti-born entrepreneur...
...sprayed the words CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FAMILY FOR THE MARTYRDOM OF DAMILAZ HAMAD. The only genuine grief was from the girl's paraplegic mother, who lay crumpled on a mattress on a dirty floor, wailing for her lost daughter. I listened to friends trying to convince the family that Allah had singled out Damilaz, instead of all the ruffians and murderers in this blighted stretch of Gaza, for an early death because her suffering was sure to be rewarded in paradise. Otherwise, my interpreter explained to me, "her death will seem pointless, and her family will grieve more...
...said that he wanted to provoke a "frank and sincere dialogue." Thus far, without really presenting any actual intellectual grist for such a discussion, all he seems to have succeeded in doing is provide an excuse for people who want to hurt someone in the name of Allah. It's a high price for a musing that was itself regrettably short on reason...