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...Although Indian authorities have found Kashmiri militants making extensive use of the hawala system, funding terrorism is not a priority for the hawala dealers. The big money comes from defrauding trade regulations: An importer arranges with a supplier to charge a fraction of his real prices on an invoice, and pays the difference via hawala. Drug traffickers and corrupt officials also use the system for money laundering. "Hawala dealers don't care about where the money comes from or what it is being used for," says Ali. "They only concern themselves with the deal...
African Americans are among America's most observant Muslims. While Yvonne Haddad of Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding estimates the fraction of immigrants who attend mosque at a mere 10%, many American blacks, with converts' zeal, memorize verse after verse of the Koran and are extremely serious about Islamic injunctions against premarital sex, abortion and alcohol. Most also shun MTV, Hollywood films, hip-hop and dancing. Such social conservatism also translates politically: the tally of Bush votes among African-American Muslims was 25% higher than in black America as a whole. The community is thoroughly patriotic...
These reported withdrawals are only a small fraction of the total number of Arab students nation-wide who are leaving school, according to a report last week from the New York Times...
With tourism seemingly out of mind for most Americans, New York City theaters have been struggling to keep their productions from closing. Broadway shows are playing to a small fraction of the audiences that are normally in attendance. The casts of six musicals have already taken 25 percent pay cuts—the actors in the popular musical comedy “Kiss Me Kate” have agreed to a 50 percent cut—in the hopes that audiences will return and save the show from closing...
...vital to strengthen all those institutions for peace. The law of unpredictable results means that violence may produce untold further violence in the future. This is particularly true in connection with the military strikes naturally being contemplated at the moment. If we were to spend even a fraction of the sums spent on defense budgets both in the U.S. and in the Middle East on serious peace initiatives, we would get much better dividends...