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Knowing we’re being watched, we defend our institution and critique it closely; we’re doubly aware of our faults and successes. Surely few other schools have such a lively internal debate: The Crimson’s editorials passed around in dining halls, the few meetings with Summers filled to capacity...
...this is home, and Magid began mobilizing his mosque to protect it. "There's no way you can be a quarter-citizen in this country," he told his congregants during Friday prayers soon after the Sept. 11 attacks. "You have to be a full citizen and defend it." For Magid, that meant working with the FBI. In early 2002, leaders of two Arab-American organizations who had been conferring with the agency on counterterrorism programs asked Magid and other local imams if they too would work with the bureau. The lawmen badly needed contacts among Washington's Muslims to help...
...takes is a modicum of intelligence [to defend ourselves],” he said. “We have the Fourth Amendment and strict evidentiary requirements...
...freaks, and such encumbrances, to secure the blessings of society, to ourselves and our successors, do ordain and establish THE~CLUB. I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully keep the existence of this club secret to the best of my ability and will preserve, protect, and defend its constitution and may I be hauled up before the dean if I do not remain forever true to this my solemn oath. Any I herewith, sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, pass or flunk, give my hand and heart?...
...French people don’t trust the government to defend their interests properly,” he said...