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When the teenage students of the Tebu Ireng Islamic school, or pesantren, in Jombang, East Java, are asked about Australia, the answers come easily, amid much giggling. "Beautiful!" one boy says. "Koalas and kangaroos," shouts another. But when talk turns to the Bali bombing two years ago, the boys argue among themselves. "It was wrong," says one. "I say the bombers did a good action," says another, "because they looked at the people in Bali wearing very open clothes." A classmate interrupts: "Their action was very harsh - and their choice of victims was false...
...floor, lunching on fried chicken as veiled women move around beneath drawings of English castles and shelves stacked with children's toys. Her father is well, Nanik says politely through an interpreter. His faith sustains him. She waves the visitors off with smiles. Down the road at Ngruki, amid a labyrinth of laneways, students in the school grounds are deeply wary of strangers. "Australia is the world's largest wool producer," is all one student will say as he hurries away. In the distance several students wear T shirts adorned with images of machine guns. No one can explain their...
...conventional profession. "When I have passion for something," says Nair, "I'm a weirdly kind of fearless person." Indeed, Mamdani explains Nair's yoga and gardening not as gentle forms of distraction but as a means of reinforcing her calm confidence and enabling her to be a willful visionary amid "the corrupting influence of the marketplace, particularly when [she is] successful...
...Communal violence is not something that anyone in the region can take lightly. The modern shape of the subcontinent was formed by Muslim-Hindu hatred. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh were born amid communal slaughter. More recently, Indian Hindus have carried out two large-scale anti-Muslim rampages, and Muslim militants reacted violently both times. The Nepalese government sees the danger...
When Nuge called, he immediately launched into a diatribe on why there are so few Republican rockers, talking for eight uninterrupted minutes, several times working himself into a screaming frenzy, once about colonial British taxes. Nuge also burped twice. Amid this rant, Nuge mentioned--three times--that unlike the Kerry-loving, dope-smoking hippie rockers on tour, he believes in living by the Ten Commandments. Asked to name them, he said, "I couldn't rip them off right now. I'm sure I live them on a daily basis." When pressed, he named five before paraphrasing the rest: "THOU SHALT...