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...such ferocity. "Any student or teacher who tries to do politics inside here," declares one principal, Mufti Mohammed Naeem, "is kicked out in 30 minutes. But," he admits, "jihad is everywhere, in graffiti, the Urdu newspapers, in tea-shop talk." Once his students leave campus, they are prey to extremist groups...
...generous donations of its benefactors, nothing is gained from a gift that taints its integrity. The University is right to freeze a $2.5-million donation from Shiekh Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), until the full extent of his connection to an extremist think tank that he founded, the Zayed Center for Coordination and Follow-up, is brought to light...
...police also see the hidden hand of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based militant Islamic group committed to ending Indian rule in Kashmir. Police believe Hanif was recruited by Lashkar while working as an electrician at a hotel in Dubai and returned to Chimatpada in 2002 as a hardened extremist trained in the use of explosives. Police suspect that Lashkar operatives introduced him to Ansari and to two other men, called Nasir and Zahid, who helped in the planning and financing of the blasts?and who remain at large...
...Other observers have little doubt that the BJP and its extremist Hindu allies in Gujarat bear some responsibility for provoking last Monday's attacks. "For the carnage we are now witnessing, politicians who have built their careers on hate must, in the final analysis, be held to account," wrote the moderate Hindu newspaper. So far, however, the BJP has shown little appetite for introspection or candor on the subject of its own culpability. That's a mistake, says Mushirul Hasan, a professor of history at Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University. "The government should say, 'This could be the result...
...Muslims are not enslaved by Islam, but in many cases their faith has been taken over by extremist Muslims who portray a wrong image of their religion. Islam is not a religion of force or domination but the apotheosis of peace. If some Muslims are converting to other faiths, it is not because of shortcomings in their religion; it's because of their lack of knowledge of Islam. True Muslims are free of the clutches of society's evils and social dogmas. It is not we Muslims who require an understanding of Christianity; it is the world that requires...