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...policies (Who does?), are not fanatic in their beliefs and would never vote for conservatives. Omar Haq Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S. Exit Signs Why is the U.S. not pursuing a diplomatic exit strategy [Oct. 30] that involves more help from our Middle Eastern allies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt? Their interests certainly supersede ours in that the tens of thousands of people who have been killed are their neighbors and not the U.S.'s. The war and attendant issues - its effect on the U.S. image abroad, the oil business and humanitarian concerns - would be better handled by the regional powers...
...pursuing a diplomatic exit strategy that involves more help from Middle Eastern allies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt? Their interests certainly supersede ours, in that the tens of thousands of people who have been killed are their neighbors and not the U.S.'s. The war and attendant issues?its effect on the U.S. image abroad, oil business and humanitarian concerns?would be better handled by the regional powers on our side. Bruce Schulte Ardmore, Oklahoma...
...their religion mandates the use of any means necessary, including suicide bombers and the mass killing of civilians, to bring about the world's submission to Islam. In an Oct. 12 "Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI," 38 distinguished Islamic religious authorities, including Grand Muftis in Turkey, Egypt, Russia, Syria, Kosovo, Bosnia and Uzbekistan, wrote that "jihad ... means struggle, and specifically struggle in the way of God. This struggle may take many forms, including the use of force." The signers delicately criticized some acts of Muslim terrorism, such as the killing of a nun in Somalia, but failed...
...went to Egypt this summer to learn how to speak Arabic. What I learned instead was how to cover up, to be invisible, to preserve my “moral reputation.”All I wanted was to learn the language that would let me break through the barrier that separated me from my grandparents and extended family. But I quickly discovered that the streets of Cairo had other lessons to offer, whether or not I was willing to learn them.In the Egyptian capital, a wardrobe malfunction is not an accident—it?...
LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I'm incapable of separating my dislike of world music from my dislike of the dinner parties at which it's played. But Egypt, winner in the Best Contemporary World Music category, is not the usual easy-listening exotica shrink-wrapped for the appetizer course. The melodies traipse from Cairo to Dakar; the lyrics are in Wolof; the liner notes offer translation and explain that the songs are about Sufi scholars, most of whom seem to practice a West African strain of Islamic Calvinism. Lest you fear learning something, N'Dour's voice sweeps and swells with...