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...cries the discerning reader. “You’ve entirely missed the point. The military has no choice but to enforce uniform physical appearance for the sake of discipline, unity and battlefield recognition. True, Sikhs’ appearance keeps them out of the American military. But these regulations aren’t designed to discriminate. They simply reflect the reality that, in the military, behavior has to be controlled more tightly than it is elsewhere...
...mental war abroad, the U.S. has barely begun to engage the enemy on the same battlefield. If America is to seek the help of nations such as Pakistan or Jordan, it must convince their governments to publicly condemn bin Laden’s actions and align themselves with the recent attacks on Afghanistan. Most importantly, the U.S. must also make sure to convince the citizens and minorities in those countries of bin Laden’s wrongful message, clearly establishing that the war is against al Qaeda and the Taliban, not against Islam. For this purpose, the U.S. should encourage...
...live amid war and ethnic strife. Massoud fought so that he could live in his homeland as he wished without brutal oppression (the same can be said of the subjects of his essays on Kosovo and Cyprus), just as the Taliban soldiers who faced him across the miles of battlefield are mostly not Islamic fanatics but young conscripts who want only to go home alive...
...Verse 8, which bids Islamic victors to "show [civilians] kindness and deal with them justly." In the Hadiths, or traditions of Muhammad, the Prophet commands, "Neither kill the old...nor children and babes nor the females," and is portrayed as appalled to discover a woman's corpse on a battlefield. Similar protections pertain to farmers and tradesmen. Even the slaughter of enemy soldiers is enjoined if no war has been declared. "It's basically the Geneva Convention," says Jamal Badawi, a well-known Islamic interpreter who teaches at St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Badawi compares the acts...
Acupuncture as political pressure point? Sure. In the feminism that informs DiFranco's songwriting, the body is a personal battlefield that maps onto a global one, the political is not only personal but economic, and her enemies, "the mighty multinationals/have monopolized the oxygen/so it's as easy as breathing/for us all to participate." In this light, you could argue that DiFranco's greatest political act as a musician was a classic Marxist one: seizing the means of production, namely her own Righteous Babe record label. Protest music is indeed alive, in some places even thriving. And in a funny...