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...Then there is the response of those convinced they know God's Politics and are just as intent on seeing the guilt assigned. An ultraconservative Israeli rabbi declared that Katrina was retribution for U.S. support of the Israeli pullout from Gaza. Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam called Katrina judgment for the Iraq war. The Christian Civic Group of Maine noted that the hurricane struck just as New Orleans was planning a huge gay-rights festival. A Kuwaiti official said, "The Terrorist Katrina is One of the Soldiers of Allah." There was, in other words, broad agreement in some...
...make up 60 percent of Iraq. Sunnis, however, make up about 85 percent of the world's Muslims. Taking the Shi'ite's sides in Iraq might buy them influence in that country, but there's a real risk that the U.S. will be seen as taking sides in Islam's greatest schism, decreasing influence in the greater Islamic world and, thus, weakening its hand in the greater war on terror...
DIED. NURCHOLISH MADJID, 66, prominent Indonesian intellectual who became known as the conscience of his nation for persistently advocating a moderate form of Islam and insisting that his mostly Muslim country remain secular; of liver and kidney failure; in Jakarta. The author of several books, including the popular Doors to God (he emphasized the plural), he is credited with persuading hard-line President Suharto to step down...
...sound. In the case of the Middle East, the idea that democracy is the panacea for all ills is extremely naive. The solution for the Middle East situation lies in resolving the Palestinian problem. Why doesn't Rice understand this? The so-called terrorists have nothing to do with Islam and everything to do with U.S. support for Israel. Syed Hasnain Ahmed Islamabad "The Condi Doctrine" compared U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with George Marshall, the U.S. Secretary of State responsible for the Marshall Plan, which helped rebuild Europe in the aftermath of World War II. To compare Rice...
...what got decided? The role of religion is settled-Islam will be the official religion of Iraq and it will be "a main source" of legislation rather than "the main source" of legislation, as many religious Shi'ites wanted. However, another article states that no laws passed may contradict Islam, which many fear will be used to establish a religious high court to vet legislation for Islamic consistency. This could be used to reduce the rights of Iraqi women, who enjoyed relatively liberal rights under Saddam's regime. Women's rights are an issue that U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad...