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That is not to say there may not be a tiny minority of mosques in America whose congregants tilt toward the Taliban or even bin Laden. At the Hazrat-I-Abubakr Sadiq mosque in Queens, after the imam decried the World Trade attack to his 1,000-person congregation, members of the Taliban's Pashtun clan moved to the basement in apparent protest...
...days before the attack, Moataz al-Hallak, the former imam at the Center Street mosque in Arlington, Texas, returned there to pray. It turns out that al-Hallak was close to Wadih el-Hage, bin Laden's secretary who was recently found guilty in the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa. Al-Hallak's name also reportedly showed up on a list at a Brooklyn refugee center headed by several men convicted in the 1993 Trade Center bombing. Al-Hallak, who has not been charged in either World Trade plot, has denied connection to bin Laden and claims to have...
Last night, I was watching continuing coverage of this horrible tragedy and came upon an ecumenical service of song and prayer. I am not a believer in organized religion. Still, something about the sight of priest and rabbi, monk and imam, started me thinking. It would be a triumph if a new unity came out of this act of hatred. It's already occurring politically: witness the current bipartisanship in Washington. I wonder whether the many arbitrary distinctions between people could be forgotten once and for all. If we could emphasize the links among us instead of the divisions, then...
...more than 65% voted for George W. Bush. They are pro-gun control, pro-environment and pro-death penalty. They are proud of their country. And they are viscerally--indeed, theologically--antiterrorist. One of the first clerics to speak at the service at the National Cathedral last week was Imam Muzammil H. Siddiqi: "We see the evil of destruction and the suffering of many of the people before our eyes. With broken and humble hearts and with tears in our eyes we turn to you, O Lord...
...intense invocation of place. Seldom has a city been so strongly, affectionately and vividly portrayed as the Bombay of Midnight’s Children and the Moor’s Last Sigh. Rushdie has only relatively recently emerged from hiding following the unilateral death warrant that was issued by Imam Khomeini of Iran after the publication of The Satanic Verses, and Fury is Rushdie’s first book since this emergence. What Rushdie calls fury abounds in the minor, miniscule details of everyday life, something Rushdie has been forcibly removed from for more than a decade in hiding...