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...example, after the Viking raids, prisoners of war were no longer enslaved as an alternative to death, but in the wars between the West and Islam, enslavement of prisoners continued on both sides...
...latest violence, which has claimed almost 70 lives - mostly Palestinian - began last Thursday, when controversial Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon led a large security detachment into the compound housing the Al Aksa mosque, Islam's third holiest site and the emotional epicenter of Palestinian sovereignty claims on Jerusalem. Sharon's move was a challenge to Barak's efforts to find a compromise with Arafat on the Holy City, and it set off a firestorm of Palestinian protest. After initial clashes atop the Temple Mount, every Israeli outpost in Arafat's territory became a lightning rod of rage for Palestinians, with...
...clashes began last Thursday with the arrival at the Al Aksa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, of Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, in a piece of political grandstanding designed to warn Prime Minister Ehud Barak off making any concessions on Jerusalem. The breadth and the intensity of the violence that has followed has been a resounding rejection on the Palestinian streets of U.S. and Israeli ideas on the future sovereignty over the Holy City. And the religious passion fueling that rejection - "jihad" (holy war) is the explanation most commonly cited by Palestinian demonstrators to explain their actions - will...
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...Although details remain unclear, Schilling may have initially gone willingly to an Abu Sayyaf camp before being abducted. The Berkeley graduate, who recently converted to Islam, had decided earlier this year to take his first trip abroad. He had befriended Filipino Muslims living in the Bay Area, and had headed for Zamboanga. There he met and quickly married a local lass, who happened to be related to Abu Sayyaf spokesman Abu Sabaya, who allegedly invited the couple to visit one of his organization's camps. But family ties didn't do much for Schilling - soon after his arrival, the group...