Word: infidels
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...many people in your life know that you'rean infidel?" he asked. "Saying no to Christmasmakes a strong message...
...tries to maintain a low profile, but as the Dhahran bombing and the one in Riyadh that preceded it both tragically indicate, the presence of U.S. soldiers incites radical Islamists. Many Arabs who are not extremists are also offended by the American military, which they view as an infidel force occupying Islam's holy land. U.S. troops further provoke internal agitation because they are seen as props for authoritarian and corrupt regimes...
...objectives are political. Some analysts designate even relatively violent Islamic groups "mainstream'' terrorists. The Trade Center bombers are in a different category. They do not have clearly visible political motives and seem to have come together rather casually, outside a formal organization, only to inflict punishment on Americans, the infidel enemies of their religion...
...bitter fruits of their campaign lie scattered across the roads of Algiers and the surrounding countryside: burned-out carcasses of buses, cars, buildings and factories. The fundamentalists consider anything or anyone connected with the "infidel state" to be a legitimate target. Miles of telephone poles lie felled. A few months ago, the rebels began booby-trapping destroyed vehicles--and even corpses--with explosives...
...Most of my ancestors were Protestants," Frazier writes. "Compared to them, I suppose I am an infidel." In telling their story, he realizes, he is tracing a particularly American trajectory. The people before him were secure in their faith and in their right to shape and lead a new nation. Then a lot of things happened -- all meticulously noted in this narrative -- beginning with pioneer hardships, moving through wars and economic booms and busts, and winding up in the pleasant suburban comforts of Frazier's own Ohio childhood. "I think my parents' generation had little conscious idea what it believed...