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...extend to the neighboring East African region and further deteriorate the existing socioeconomic and political problems of the entire African continent. Okeke Jide Martyns Bradford, England The killings in Darfur are an even greater challenge to the Muslim world than the devastation in Iraq. Muslims should know that Islam abhors racism, terrorism and all other forms of injustice. The Janjaweed's terrorist tactics are un-Islamic. Human life is sacred, and so is a woman's chastity. These murderers and rapists should repent and embrace reconciliation. Abdullahi Kirfi Lagos You have done a service in underscoring the human tragedy...
...Sept. 11 terrorist attacks took place and overnight it became important to know something about countries like Iran and Pakistan, intellectuals in America and Britain were grateful that Naipaul had already filled a whole bookshelf with essays on those places. They discovered that he had seen the tension between Islam and the West earlier and more intensely than any of them had. Reviewers praised his journalism for being "prophetic." In awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, the Swedish Academy drew special attention to Naipaul's travel writing and highlighted his "incorruptible scrutiny." Yet all this fame...
...similarly limited vision marks Naipaul's two books on Islam?Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey (1981) and Beyond Belief (1998). His thesis is provocative: Islam is a manifestation of Arab civilization that has spread through Arab conquest. Wherever it has spread in Asia?Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia?it has cut off its converts from their own heritage, history and culture and made them revere the civilization of their conquerors. He certainly gathers a fair amount of evidence to support his case: in Pakistan, for example, he observes that people invented fake genealogies tracing themselves back to Arab ancestors...
...Union, for all of its moral posturing at the outset of the Iraq war, has been largely silent on this crisis, with the notable exception of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The worst, however, is the Arab League, whose members relish characterizing Western military policy as neo-crusades against Islam and decrying the violent Zionism of Israelis in the West Bank, yet have nothing to say when the murderers and the victims are both Muslims. This blatant refusal to support the innocent black Muslim civilians is undeniable evidence that the historically racist leadership of Arab countries is still hostile...
...deals in the oil-rich nation, Libya's leader made it clear that he was not a supporter of Washington's strategy in Iraq. "The best thing [the U.S. ] could do for the Iraqis and the Americans is to withdraw," Gaddafi told TIME. Gaddafi's second son, Seif al Islam, widely perceived as his father's likely political heir, pledged to stay out of the fight against terrorism, too. "We should not be engaged in the war on terror," he said. "This is a war between the West and al-Qaeda. We are not part of it." Libya is making...