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...views held by those responsible for the siege of Islamabad's Red Mosque are not truly representative of Islam. There is no religion in the world that justifies the use of violence or promotes taking the law into one's own hands. The residents of the Lal Masjid compound have done both by forcefully occupying land and abducting people. If any of the victims involved stood accused of wrongdoing, the matter should have been taken up with the proper authorities. Islam teaches universal brotherhood and kindness to humanity - a view, alas, lost on those brandishing their weapons to uphold...
...tone of the article suggested that the believers in the Lal Masjid compound are victims and not common thugs. It is clear that they will not be happy until they force their beliefs on all of Pakistan. They would be committing more crimes if they weren't under siege. Scot Westwood, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH...
Hutchinson's team, led by Dr. Jim Olson, spent three years developing the compound and has tested it in a variety of human tumors grown in mice. "The target we are hitting is something that most cancer cells use to eat away normal tissue to make space for the cancer to grow," he says. So far the researchers have successfully illuminated five kinds of cancers: gliomas and medulloblastomas in the brain, sarcomas in muscles, and prostate and colon cancers. They expect to begin testing the agent in human patients next year...
...unwillingness to Islamicize Pakistan and with his pro-West policies in the war on terror. On the surface, Musharraf won. By Wednesday, July 11, the death toll was at least 50 militants (as well as 14 soldiers), and the army was mopping up small pockets of resistance inside the compound. Yet the siege could become the first salvo in a divisive war for Pakistan's soul: to be a traditional, Shari'a-based society, or a modern, moderate Muslim nation. As the urban élite and middle class lauded what they considered to be Musharraf's action to clean...
...though it wouldn't dispel the constitutional questions over him being both Chief of Army Staff and President. It's a risky strategy, and so is the ongoing siege at the Red Mosque. Dividends will depend on how many, and what kind, of bodies are carried out of the compound when it's all over...