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...life. At least the prisoner stays in one place with a guard outside. We are always moving, and only God is watching." ABDUL WAHED HASHIM, Iraqi businessman, after months of sleeping in different houses and constantly changing cars to avoid being kidnapped, on the lack of security in Iraq...
...allows the blessings Hannah finds in the company of fellow drunks: "We study to move like wirewalkers, all mesmerising tensions and hot sweat, we cut away our languages, our names, and in return for this tiny effort we are given our wonderful smile and it protects us, because God is on our side." Like God, Hannah too loves a drunk. His name is Robert Gardener, a dipsomaniac of a dentist, and though he seems to make her whole ("Nobody is complete - we all need topping up") it quickly becomes clear that her void is spiritual, not spirit-based. God, faith...
...biggest concern--and this is often an issue when you get a change of leadership--people think, Oh, my God, everything is going to change. There will be change, but it will be normal change that the previous leadership would have implemented as well...
...much the same way, modern Muslims are pitted against people worshipping false idols of hatred, violence and intolerance. After he fled Mecca, the Prophet heard a chapter of the Koran called Al-Nisa (The Women), which said, "O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for justice as witnesses to God, even if it may be against yourselves, your parents or your kin." With this philosophy, he built a vibrant, inclusive community and returned to Mecca to claim the city that is today the heart of Islam...
...pretty much blows the hell out of the second A." She refers to rehab as "stupid" and argues that not only have A.A. meetings proved ineffective, but it was unconstitutional for a judge to compel her to attend. "I'm an atheist," she says. "Everyone tries to say that God is not a part of A.A., but the third step states pretty clearly that you have to turn yourself over to a higher power...