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Rachel’s insistence on unearthing her grand-uncle’s grave, which had been concealed under a tree in the Muslim cemetery, has dire consequences—especially since this grand-uncle was also an excommunicated infidel, an “unbeliever.” Koya sees Rachel as a disobedient wench far too bold for her own good and insists that the gravestone be smashed and scattered to the four winds...
...more kicks from criticizing that infidel Mansfield than from hooking up with attractive sophomores,” he said. “There’s really no need for students to be concerned about getting play. That’s just part of the herd mentality at a school. Only when we let ourselves get carried away do we think that parties are fun, that alcohol is agreeable and that sexual satisfaction is worthwhile. Students don’t really enjoy that stuff—they just think they do. ‘Chastity’ will finally convince...
...ambitions in the short run are plain. His first goal is to compel the U.S. to withdraw its military forces (today numbering 6,000) from his native Saudi Arabia. The presence of foreign troops in the cradle of Islam is, for him, "the latest and the greatest" of all infidel aggressions against the religion in its 14-century history. By their very presence, he believes, the U.S. forces defile the Muslim holy land. "Now infidels walk everywhere on the land where Muhammad was born and where the Koran was revealed to him," he lamented to TIME in a 1998 interview...
...only determined by military might and guerilla tactics, but also by the most deeply-rooted religious beliefs configured in the epic conception of the world that fundamentalism has established in the area. For many Muslims influenced by fundamentalist claims, this war is the Holy War against the infidel Occidental World represented by America, and they are prepared to lose their own lives in order to defend their cause...
Moussaoui later moved to Britain, where the focus of his life became the radical mosques of London's Baker Street and the fiery discourses of imams who even today are openly urging the destruction of infidel societies like the U.S. In 1995 Moussaoui made his first visit to Afghan training camps run by bin Laden, visits that continued through 1996. And Moussaoui began recruiting other young Muslims to fight for Islam in Chechnya and Kosovo. Moussaoui finally set down in the U.S. in February using an entry visa obtained in Pakistan...