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...formed from the Republican Guard following the U.S. invasion in 2003. After he was captured by the U.S. and sent to Abu Ghraib prison, Abu Abdullah enrolled in a prison-yard madrasah, or religious school; by the time he was released, he identified himself as a holy warrior for Islam. Today he is what the military calls a tier-two al-Qaeda leader, commanding cells in and around Baghdad...
...They will pressure me enough, and then I will blow somebody's head off." OVOD GOLAYEV, Muslim citizen of Karachayevsk, Russia, warning against his government's increasing surveillance of those who practice Islam outside of state-sanctioned mosques...
...religion the taking of a single human life or sadistic destruction on a larger scale. Today's young people are searching for meaning and a community with human values, which an impersonal and technologically driven Europe cannot offer them. Materialism and consumerism don't inspire them to heroism. Radical Islam on its face seems to supply to alienated young Muslims the model of a "civilized" society. It is most unfortunate and dangerous. Valentine Iheanacho Rome...
...Enemy Within," on radical young European Muslims who are turning to religious militancy [Oct. 31], quoted the extremist Sayful Islam: "Even if my own family were killed by a jihadi's bomb, I would say it's the will of Allah." That statement reveals in unambiguous terms the mind-set of every radical Muslim across the globe, whether in Europe, the U.S., Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan or my home country, Nigeria. No right-thinking person can justify in the name of religion the taking of a single human life. Today's young people are searching for meaning and a community with...
...progressive imams like Magid realize they are on the front line between the Muslim community and a country awakening--often fearfully--to the knowledge that it has a Muslim community. "It's time for Islam in America to be American," he says. For the FBI, that kind of thinking may be one of its best weapons in the war on terrorism...