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...public event at Hillel invited four Harvard students who served in the IDF to discuss the exhibit with Oded Na’aman, a former IDF soldier presenting “Breaking The Silence” during its time in Boston, which ended Sunday. While some student panelists welcomed the exhibit, others criticized it for a lack of context and for portraying a negative image of Israel...
...Umma Aman said she wanted to die for her God. She was sitting on a pile of sandbags, pressing wet rags to her eyes in an attempt to ease the effects of the clouds of tear gas billowing through her madrasah. Outside, gunfire echoed through the deserted streets of Islamabad as the Pakistani military battled militants holed up in the mosque next door. Aman, just 22, had wanted to fight alongside her brothers, as she called them, in defense of the Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa madrasah complex that had been the conservative heartbeat of Pakistan's capital for decades...
...days later, her prayers were answered, according to the school's headmistress. Aman, together with some 70 other students and militants, died as the weeklong siege of the mosque and madrasah complex culminated in a final showdown lasting 36 hours. Few Pakistanis had supported the mosque-led vigilante campaign that kidnapped alleged brothel workers, threatened video and music shops selling "un-Islamic" material and declared a fatwa against the popular woman tourism minister who had been photographed hugging her parachute instructor. Still, the government's attack on the madrasah last July was widely condemned. The popularity of President Pervez Musharraf...
...female madrasah students launched their vigilante campaign against CD shops and massage parlors. "The government point of view is that we challenged the writ of the state, but we believe that the government is challenging the writ of God," says 16-year-old Asma Mazar, a classmate of Aman's who survived the siege. "Pakistan was born an Islamic state, so it is the duty of the government to stop these kind of illegal businesses. But if the government doesn't do its duty, it is up to the clerics or common Pakistanis to step...
...firing slows, and Hassan strides into the courtyard triumphant. "Good news," she says. "Our boys stole four guns from the rangers." The atmosphere is electric. Aman eventually finds me. She wants to go back out to help her comrades. I realize that the head-to-toe shrouds serve another purpose: sopping wet, they provide excellent protection against tear gas. Aman's eyes, though bloodshot, are exultant. "We are never afraid," she says. "One day all lives will end, and if this is the case, then why not give our life to Islam?" The battle lasts six hours and claims...