Word: hijack
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Then came Sept. 11. After the hijack terror followed bioterror - anthrax. Faced with the potential of a widespread public health emergency, U.S. officials scrambled to stockpile Cipro, Bayer AG's patented antibiotic used to treat anthrax. Suddenly the U.S. and Canada - long tough on patent protection - found themselves feeling like South Africa, Brazil and other developing nations desperate for needed medicines at low cost. When politicians mentioned overriding patents, Bayer struck discount-purchase deals. Bayer also donated 4 million tablets to the U.S. for emergency and postal workers. Other companies, too, are eager to promote their own low-cost anthrax...
...righteous, annihilating power. What is more arrogant than a vocabulary of "infidel," "jihad" and "fatwa"? More arrogant than the totalitarian conceit that Allah obliges "the faithful" to wage vicious holy war against the airplanes and office buildings of the ungodly? What is more arrogant, or in worse taste, than hijack heroes' sleazy dreams of paradise, with 72 virgins at the disposal of each "martyr...
Although no responsible Islamic leader has actually spoken in support of the attacks, by the clerics' very reticence they are allowing terrorists to hijack Islam. Islamic leaders need to realize that by failing to denounce the terrorists strongly, they are arousing unnecessary anti-Islamic sentiment. ANNA ANITA DUMRA Bangalore, India...
...Afghanistan’s starving population. Besides food drops, it is important that we work to establish a successor regime to the Taliban. Muslims are being held hostage by sociopaths who, as President Bush intimated, “blaspheme the name of Allah” and “hijack Islam itself.” The religion of Islam has been cast as a violent, destructive faith by such radical terrorists. Yet the terrorists’ tactics separate them from the vast majority of Muslims in the world. They are killers before they are Muslims, and they support murder before...
...Afghanistan’s starving population. Besides food drops, it is important that we work to establish a successor regime to the Taliban. Muslims are being held hostage by sociopaths who, as President Bush intimated, “blaspheme the name of Allah” and “hijack Islam itself.” The religion of Islam has been cast as a violent, destructive faith by such radical terrorists. Yet the terrorists’ tactics separate them from the vast majority of Muslims in the world. They are killers before they are Muslims, and they support murder before...