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...President George W. Bush has apologized for the mistreatment and torture of Iraqi prisoners. Now it is time for Muslim clerics to denounce the terrorists or admit that Islam is fighting a war with us?a religious war. The pictures of prisoner abuse were not meant for public distribution, unlike the videos of the beheadings of noncombatants taped by Islamic murderers. The mullahs must show that this barbaric behavior is not tolerated?or admit to being accomplices. Mark Price Houston...
...through, born and bred in California, a speaker of unaccented English, intimate with the country's habits and thus able to move about without arousing suspicion. Brought up and homeschooled on his parents' goat farm, Gadahn was an introspective teenager who went looking for meaning and found it in Islam. Eventually, he also found his way to Pakistan and, according to U.S. authorities, Afghanistan, where they claim he attended al-Qaeda training camps and has acted as a translator for the group...
...announcement last week that it was seeking Gadahn for questioning conjured memories of John Walker Lindh, the young Californian convert to Islam who in 2002 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for serving in the Taliban army. But it also called to mind the cautionary tale of Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield, another American convert, who just a week before had been released from jail after U.S. officials mistakenly tied him to the March bombings in Madrid. Had al-Qaeda found a gateway through an American recruit, or were authorities again overreaching...
...hard to focus on your rehab when you're always watching your back." Bossard Shawn, 32, says he saw his Muslim chaplain so infrequently at his former prison that he felt adrift. Now, under the regular tutelage of local imam Zaid Malik, "I have far more knowledge of Islam and myself," says Shawn. "It's going to make a great amount of difference when I leave here in six months." Notes Lawtey senior chaplain William Wright: "You can teach a man new skills in prison, but you also have to work on his heart. I think this more holistic approach...
President Bush has apologized for the torture of Iraqi prisoners. Now it is time for Muslim clerics to denounce the terrorists or admit that Islam is fighting a war with us--a religious war. The Abu Ghraib pictures were not meant for public distribution, unlike the videos of the beheadings of noncombatants taped by Islamic murderers. The mullahs must show that this barbaric behavior is not tolerated--or admit to being accomplices. MARK PRICE Houston...