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...Translated, it says: "The people who made this operation are from the few honored Iraqi mujahideen and we ask any honored Iraqis to defend this country and we can't accept any forces, Arab or foreigners, whoever it is, whether it is to reconstruct or occupy it. Depend on Allah, mujahideen...
...believers were historical enemies. An excerpt detailing "ways to show hatred to the infidel" charges that "it is forbidden to show happiness during the holidays of the infidels." The minister noted that three Koranic messages encouraging tolerance would be included in Saudi texts. One of them says, "Allah forbids you not, with regard to those who fight you not for your faith nor to drive you out of your homes, from dealing kindly and justly with them. For Allah loveth those who are just...
...better human being," he says. A seventh-grade Saudi text in use in the U.S. and obtained by Rita Katz, executive director of an institute called the Search for International Terrorist Entities, explains a Koranic verse thusly: "We have to be careful of the infidels, and we can ask Allah to destroy them in our prayers...
...reprisals by anti-American thugs. But one hopeful development has been the revulsion voiced by Iraqis at the depraved tactics of al-Qaeda and its sympathizers. "Before, I thought al-Qaeda only killed Americans," says Kadem Saleh, 33, a pilgrim in Najaf. "Now they are killing Iraqis. I say, 'Allah curse them.'" The U.S. still needs to convince more Iraqis that they're safe to do the same. --Reported by Bruce Crumley/Paris, Aparisim Ghosh and Michael Ware/Baghdad, Helen Gibson/London, Scott Macleod/Cairo, Tim McGirk/Islamabad and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...call to prayer resounds through a loudspeaker. The boys spring up to wash in ritual preparation. Starting as young as 8, these boys spend six hours a day memorizing the Koran, with breaks only for rest and prayer. The students get no lessons in math, geography, history or computers. Allah's will as recorded in the holy Koran, the teachers say, is all they need to understand the universe. The system of belief is summed up this way by student Syed Ayaz Ali Shah: "Since the days of the Prophet, there are only two forces on earth, Muslims and infidels...