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Karachi's mosques offer an oasis of shade and tranquility in this sweltering city. But fewer Karachiites are responding to the muezzin's call to prayer these days. The city is experiencing one of its periodic spasms of vengeful warfare between extremist members of Islam's Sunni and Shi'a religious sects. Mosques are a favored target...
...Just as Muslims want others to differentiate between the peaceful side of Islam and the violent side practiced by some of its followers, so must the West want to differentiate between those who live up to Western ideals and those who do not. Both cultures have failed. Redhuan D. Oon Kuala Lumpur...
...volunteer guerrillas like Ali come from all backgrounds: traders, butchers, farmers, students and a great many unemployed. Most are ready to die for al-Sadr because they say he is the only one who dares to stand up for Islam against the Americans. Al-Sadr's revered father, an uncle and two brothers were murdered by Saddam's regime. But in the past few months, al-Sadr has developed his own voice as the champion of millions of poor Shi'ites who feel dispossessed and disillusioned a year into the occupation. Since the U.S. came, says Ali, the people have...
...Sikh, Singh is the first member of a religious minority to lead India. As an advocate of secular government, he will be a welcome antidote to outgoing Prime Minister Vajpayee who once declared, “These days militancy in the name of Islam leaves no room for tolerance. Wherever such Muslims live, they tend not to live in coexistence.” And under Singh’s tenure, India could begin to emerge from large-scale poverty. As finance minister in the early 1990s, Singh began the effort to scale back India’s mammoth bureaucracy...
...Arab regimes it hopes to supplant, because these regimes appear powerless to affect the plight of the Palestinians and Iraqis. With seemingly no Arab leaders capable of protecting Arab interests, bin Laden paints himself and his politics of suicidal jihad as the path to redeeming Islam's lost honor...