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...separate opinion, you cannot be outspoken," she says. "Once you have a separate identity, then other things will come." For most Muslim women, there are many things left to come. -Reported by Hannah Bloch/Islamabad, Amanda Bower/ New York, Andrew Finkel/Istanbul, Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi, Scott MacLeod/Riyadh, Azadeh Moaveni/Tehran, Amany Radwan/ Cairo, Matt Rees/Amman and Simon Robinson/ Sana...
...went up to me and started talking to me about what was going on, and she said, 'Yeah, those Arabs are all knuckleheads,' not realizing I was one. And another day, a woman came up to me and said, 'Where are you from?' I said I was born in Cairo. She said, 'You must be a terrorist then,' and she said it very seriously, so I asked her with expletives to leave my presence." Since the attacks, the Los Angeles resident has launched the Association of Patriotic Arab-Americans in the Military, just to drive home the point...
Doubtless, reverberations of the upheavals that rock Kabul will also be felt in Islamabad, Baghdad, Riyadh, Cairo and Tehran. The Bush administration needs to take these reverberations into account and move beyond retaliation to develop a more global strategy instead of petulantly pursuing their present series of reactionary policies in an attempt to boost lagging American confidence. Already, the U.S.-led coalition is shaky at best. Exisººting tensions between Pakistan and India have jeopardized the stability of the coalition, with India threatened by the recent warming of U.S.-Pakistani relations. With such antagonistic neighbors both possessing a nuclear...
...Americans turned to churches, mosques and synagogues in record numbers, some religious leaders turned to one another in what amounted to a big group hug. One of those interfaith friendships has now unraveled. Three weeks after kneeling in prayer with Jewish leaders, Sheik Muhammad Gemeaha, a scholar with Cairo's prominent al-Azhar University and the leader of the Islamic Cultural Center in New York City, was quoted on an Arabic-language website saying that Jews carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and that Jewish doctors were poisoning Muslim children in U.S. hospitals. Next, he abruptly resigned from the center...
...three suicide flights all came from Hamburg. That German city on the North Sea, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said last week, served as a "central base of operations." What was it about Hamburg that made it more attractive as a base than, say, Frankfurt, London or even Cairo...