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...Fatima thinks it was her daughter Zabeen's beautiful smile that attracted the child stealer. Playing outside the tea shop near their home in the north Chennai suburb of Washermanpet, with only her four-year-old brother watching, the bright two-year-old was an easy target. While Fatima popped around the corner to the market, Zabeen was bundled into a motorized rickshaw and vanished into the mass of humanity that swirls through the city's squalid alleyways and slums...
...Fatima hoped she might one day be reunited with her daughter, but as time passed she lost hope. "I gave her up to Allah," she says. It would be seven years before she learned the truth. Zabeen had been snatched by a gang of criminals who hunted pretty children in the poorest parts of southern India and spirited them away, giving them new identities before dispatching them to adoptive parents in the West. Stolen from a mother's arms while they slept on the pavement, kidnapped as they played, or taken from gullible parents who thought they were being sent...
...happened that one of Morocco's weapons against this jihadi fantasy was also riding the bus that day, a seat in front of the glue-sniffing trio. With her chubby cheeks, quiet voice and large glasses, Fatima Zohra al Salfi makes an unlikely heroine, and she's clearly nervous about a few of the sinister-looking passengers on the bus. What al Salfi has going for her is the same thing the jihadis have: religion. She is a murshida, a Muslim "guide" or preacher, and as such a rarity in the Islamic world, in which religious instruction is usually...
...Sunnis, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, do not follow a hereditary system of selecting leadership. By contrast, Shias trace a direct line from Fatima, the Prophet’s daughter, and her husband Ali to a spiritual leader, or imam, with the power to interpret the faith...
...teammates, 18-year-old Fatima Ahmed, recently graduated from Noor-Ul Iman, and is a freshman at Columbia University. (She still helps out with coaching, and was eligible to play in the Islamic Games.) Ahmed says that dress code in college teams is only half the battle, and that more deep-seated cultural changes are required for more Muslim girls in America to even think about sports beyond high school. Ahmed, whose family comes from Pakistan, cannot imagine playing basketball in her country of origin. She says that many Muslim parents from conservative countries still find it unacceptable for their...