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Douglas Sidialo, 31, lost his eyesight on Aug. 7, 1998, when terrorists bombed the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. A simultaneous bombing at the embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, resulted in a total of 224 people dead and thousands injured. The U.S. responded quickly with $50 million in humanitarian aid. But, says Sidialo, who heads Nairobi's largest survivors' group, "It's our hope that Americans could help us even more...
...Nairobi Dar es Salaam Aug. 7, 1998 Car bombs exploded outside U.S. embassies in the two African capitals, killing 224 people. Bin Laden was later indicted for the attacks...
...Dar-ul-uloom there are no bombs, no dynamite, nothing explosive on the eight-acre compound - not even in the written or spoken word. There was just the routine and the defensive humor and goodwill of hard-working, devout people who believe in the Word of God; people who study His revelations and try to interpret correctly the utterances of His prophet Mohammed...
...Dar-ul-uloom is a product of the Indian mutiny of 1857, a watershed for India's Muslims. After Britain's victory ended the Muslim dominance of the subcontinent, the school became the center of a forward-looking movement that sought to reform and unite Muslim society in a country now ruled by non-Muslim foreigners. The key was education. They were suspicious of Western learning and British attempts to educate Indians to think like Englishmen. The Deobandis, as they are called, sought to create a new generation of learned Muslims, self-confident and able to use the revealed texts...
...political reputation of graduates from Deobandi schools that has led some governments in the region to keep the Deobandi movement at arm's length. India refuses to grant visas to students from abroad to study at Dar-ul-uloom, fearful that another leader like the Taliban's Mullah Omar might emerge in one of its neighbors. But the government has no problems opening immigration doors to foreign students who wish to study at the country's other great center of Islamic scholarship and revival - Aligarh Muslim University...