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...selected 28 journalists from the United States and around the world for its 69th class of fellows, including Dexter Filkins, a Baghdad correspondent for the New York Times. Like several of the other fellows, he will focus his studies the U.S.’s interaction with the Islamic world. Filkins’ research will examine the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and look at the relationship between the Western and Islamic worlds after September 11th. Eliza Griswold, another Nieman fellow and a freelance journalist whose byline has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine...
...families say they cooperated fully with the NCIS, but drew the line at exhumation; investigators' requests for the bodies to be dug up for forensic examination were flatly turned down by the families. Islam doesn't permit bodies to be disturbed after burial...
...Thabet, the human rights worker, feels the same way. ?These are people who didn't just kill individuals, they destroyed entire families,? he says. ?In Islam, the punishment for such a crime is death...
...imams voice, Ahmad feels in his own self a desire to rise up and crush him, as God roasted that poor worm at the center of the spiral. The student's faith exceeds the master's; it frightens Shaikh Rashid to be riding the winged white steed of Islam, its irresistible onrushing. He seeks to soften the Prophets words, to make them blend with human reason, but they were not meant to blend: they invade our human softness like a sword. Allah is sublime beyond all particulars. There is no God but He, the Living, the Self-Subsistent...
...said. Ebadi expounded on the state of women’s rights in Iran, citing laws requiring women to veil, which she argued reflects the fact that Iran is “not an advanced democracy.” According to Ebadi, these laws are not reflective of Islam but rather of a “patriarchal and wrong interpretation of Islam.” “If you go further east—Malaysia, Indonesia—the veil is not mandatory and people there are able to live more comfortable and free lives,” Ebadi...