Word: islam
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When the golden dome of the Askariya Mosque in Samarra was destroyed last year, many Iraqis blamed not the bombers who did the deed, but American soldiers for failing to protect one of Shi?ite Islam's holiest sites. That conformed to a pattern; for more than four years, the U.S. military has been Iraqis' scapegoat of choice for all the ills of their country...
...understanding in Sarfraz Manzoor's Greetings from Bury Park. But what gives the memoir its special kick is that the Pakistani-born Briton, now 35, manages to stake out his own life, more hopeful than his parents', not by becoming an assimilated Englishman, nor by turning to radical Islam, but by becoming, of all things, a Springsteenite. In the songs of the Catholic Bruce Springsteen, from New Jersey, the keema aloo-loving boy in working-class England finds a way to grasp his parents' dreams while also claiming new dreams of his own. From Springsteen, he breathes in a distinctly...
...Toward the end of our lunch, I asked Shultz, now 86, what lessons the world can draw from the Reagan speech at a time when the U.S. and its allies are struggling to contain the new threat of militant Islam. "President Reagan had the idea that change could happen," Shultz says. "That put him at odds with establishment thinking, which had embraced détente and assumed change would not happen. To them, you had two systems that would go on forever; peaceful coexistence was the objective. Reagan assumed change was possible and I thought so too. Your mindset makes...
...Western world is struggling to come to terms with Islam. Where should we start? We - Christians, Westerners, whatever - perceive the Muslim world as large, aggressive, successful, expanding. Muslims in the U.K. see themselves as small, vulnerable, under attack, suspected by everybody. When you have something like the Mohammed cartoons in the Danish papers, ask yourself what it feels like if you're a member of an economically depressed, rather isolated Muslim community, in a majority non-Muslim environment...
...presently conceived, “respect” and “sensitivity” are the subsidiary platitudes of this vacant multiculturalism. A real sensitivity for other cultures, however, would entail discerning differences, perhaps even more than finding common ground. People who truly respect Islam, for instance, should be able to understand and fear the signs sent by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s millennial behavior: What is not considerate of Islam is to assume that those of its adherents whose theology brooks no separation of civil and religious authority will be motivated by the same incentives that...