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...department. A practicing physician, el-Erian, 51, joined the group after Israel's defeat of the Arab states in the 1967 Six-Day War helped spur a revival of Islamic fundamentalism in the Arab world. He was among thousands of activists rounded up at about the time a Muslim extremist assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. After a year in prison, el-Erian won a seat in parliament in 1987, serving three years before being jailed again...
...Enemy Within," on radical young European Muslims who are turning to religious militancy [Oct. 31], quoted the extremist Sayful Islam: "Even if my own family were killed by a jihadi's bomb, I would say it's the will of Allah." That statement reveals in unambiguous terms the mind-set of every radical Muslim across the globe, whether in Europe, the U.S., Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan or my home country, Nigeria. No right-thinking person can justify in the name of religion the taking of a single human life. Today's young people are searching for meaning and a community with...
...Zarqawi's network that Jordan would "pursue them wherever they are and smoke them out of their holes." In parading Rishawi before the cameras, Abdullah also showed that he intends to go head-to-head with the terrorists in the battle for Jordanian hearts and minds. Rishawi has an extremist pedigree-not only her brother-in-law, but also her own brother, another Zarqawi acolyte, died at Falluja. But before a TV audience of millions throughout the Arab world, she struck a pathetic figure. It turns out that she was married only two weeks ago during an Islamic holiday, embarking...
...Magid knows, no terrorist has tried to infiltrate the mosque, but he always worries that one might. ADAMS prides itself on being an extremist-free zone. Newcomers who mutter thoughts of jihad quickly discover they are not welcome. During Ramadan, guest speakers for evening prayers were carefully screened to make sure they preached religious tolerance...
Magid keeps close watch on younger members of the mosque who might be drawn to the diatribes of radical clerics. Before 9/11, he recalls, a teenager who had read a fatwa on an extremist website walked into his office and asked whether the Koran sanctioned suicide bombings. "Absolutely not!" he sternly told the boy. Since the attacks, no young person has approached him with that kind of question, but Magid constantly lectures in Koran classes: "Don't blindly follow how any religious leader interprets Islam--even me." After last July's bombings in London, which were carried out by young...