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These days Palestinians celebrate the suicides in newspaper announcements that read, perversely, like wedding invitations. "The Abdel Jawad and Assad families and their relatives inside the West Bank and in the Diaspora declare the martyrdom of their son, the martyr Ahmen Hafez Sa'adat," reads a March 30 notice for the 22-year-old killer of four Israelis in a shooting attack. Palestinian children play a game called "Being a Martyr," in which the "martyr" buries himself in a shallow grave. And the job of bomber comes with established cash bonuses and health benefits for the surviving family. How else...
...their moral duties to the children in the streets. The traditional patriarchy begins to disintegrate...At the birth of Israel 42 years ago, one people crashed back into history, another spilled out of it. For the world's Jews, 1948 was a miracle after nearly 2,000 years of diaspora. For the Palestinians, the year was what they call al nakba, the disaster...
...never commented on it. The purpose of Black History Month is to put forth an enlightened perspective that contradicts such misguided judgments and combats this biased scholarship. Its goal is to show that a fuller appreciation and understanding of human life can be gained from seriously analyzing the African diaspora...
...middle section of the book deals with the Chinese diaspora. Buruma's target in Hong Kong and Taiwan is the oft intoned notion that Chinese culture is inherently antithetical to democracy?a theory that both galls and seduces many of his subjects. He points out that Taiwan's long-discredited, virtually invisible exiles?"dismissed as irrelevant and quixotic as the mainland dissidents are today"?eventually played a vital role in the island's democratization. "For democracy to succeed," Buruma suggests, "China probably needs more Taiwans...
...would be symbolically and historically fitting if the next great reform of Islam came from the diaspora in the West. After all, the starting point of the Muslim calendar is not the year of Muhammad's birth but the day 1,379 years ago when the Prophet led his followers from his birthplace in Mecca to found a new community in Medina. "The very foundation of Islamic civilization was built on diaspora, on the move from Mecca to Medina," says British Muslim writer Sardar. "This is where the diaspora is very important: in creating a truly moderate tradition...