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...came to Jamia Hafsa to interview its headmistress, Umma Hassan, for a story about Islam in Pakistan. Aman, a pretty 22-year-old student in her final year, was her translator. Before the interview started, Aman talked about her desire to live according to the teachings of Islam, and how angry she was that her government did not support her. Students and teachers from both the men's and women's schools have embarked on an antivice campaign in the capital, shutting down video and music shops for promoting un-Islamic behavior. Twice now, the female students have abducted alleged...
...students, not fighters, but if the government pushes us to fight, so be it," she says. "God will give us the power to win." I ask if she is afraid. "We are not frightened," she says. "One day all lives will end, [so] why not give [our lives] to Islam?" Amma Adeem, a 20-year-old student in the same class, says she is willing to sell her life for paradise. "This is the house of Allah," she says, meaning the madrasah, Islamabad, Pakistan and the world. "We must live by his laws. We don't do this for ourselves...
Johnston's release was won through strong-arm tactics. A senior Hamas militant told TIME that Johnston's kidnappers, the Army of Islam, were made an offer they couldn't refuse: either they let the Briton go, or they would be hunted down and killed. The group, linked to the powerful Gaza Dogmush clan and its coterie of gunrunners and criminals, had its compound surrounded by 6,000 Hamas gunmen in the 48 hours before Johnston's release...
Freeing Johnston, say Palestinian analysts, may help pave the way toward the release of another Gaza hostage, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, because the Army of Islam is among the militant groups that helped kidnap Shalit a year ago. But he would probably be exchanged for hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, and Israeli officials must first overcome their aversion to dealing with Hamas, a group they still brand as "terrorists...
...pretty seminary student. Aman talked about the source of the students' anger, saying that if the government wouldn't cleanse the capital of sin, they would. "A man goes to medical school and becomes a doctor," says Aman. "We go to a madrasah, so we must practice Islam. We must act on God's will...