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...their heads. The group's statement admonished Nepal "and other lapdogs of the Jews and the Christians," adding: "Do not sympathize with this impure group. They have left their country and traveled thousands of kilometers to work with the crusader American forces and to support its war against Islam and the holy warriors." It was the bloodiest incident in Iraq's five-month plague of kidnappings, which have involved more than 100 hostages from 20 countries...
Mohammad Zakaria is an angry man. The headmaster of al-Islam pesantren in Tenggulun, on the island of Java?gaunt, bearded and with deep-set black eyes blazing?is warning visitors to his Islamic boarding school that it is fortunate they come in peace. If not, he says, non-Muslims "would be lucky to get out alive." Asked about terrorist attacks by Muslims, Zakaria grows more agitated, raising his voice. "The unbelievers accuse us Muslims of being terrorists because they don't have the guts just to say they are waging war against Islam." Of those convicted for their parts...
...Zakaria's words seem harshly out of place in this sleepy village of narrow lanes and rattan-and-straw shacks. But despite its peaceful air, Tenggulun could reasonably be described as ground zero for militant Islam in Indonesia. Al-Islam school was founded in the early 1990s by two brothers of the three convicted bombers. Yet the bitter radicalism of Zakaria, together with the drawings of automatic rifles and slogans calling for jihad and martyrdom in students' essays pasted to one of the school's walls, is at odds with the beliefs and practices of the roughly 200 million Muslims...
...effect that day, and though Butt, 18, opposes the ban - "taking off the veil bothers me every time," she said - she was submitting to it. It is, after all, the law of the republic. Almost 4,000 km to the east, a group of insurgents calling themselves the Iraqi Islamic Army were inviting French Muslims like Butt to take sides against that republic. The insurgents were threatening to kill two abducted French journalists unless the government rescinded the head-scarf ban. But the government refused to do so, and even though they disagree with the law, French Muslims rallied behind...
...Morning After Nov. 1, 2004 ----------------- The God Gene Oct. 25, 2004 ----------------- The Vote Battle Oct. 18, 2004 ----------------- Visions of Tomorrow Oct. 11, 2004 ----------------- The Tragedy of Sudan Oct. 4, 2004 ----------------- CBS Controversy Sept. 27, 2004 ----------------- America's Border Sept. 20, 2004 ----------------- Struggle Within Islam Sept. 13, 2004 ----------------- World of George Bush Sept...