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...need a better understanding of why Islamic fundamentalists are willing to kill. Solely going after the bad guys won't work. The West has grasped some of the difficulties that give rise to terrorists: social and economic backwardness, repressive rule in some Muslim countries and lack of effective participation in world trade. But other factors include the historical defeat and humiliation of Muslims, their feeling of impotence vis-a-vis the West, the arrogant concept of the superiority of Islam and Muslim youths' lack of hope. The war on terrorism is to a large extent a war of ideas with...
...severs the animal's head. The scene - repeated hundreds of times a day at slaughterhouses across the U.K. - could soon be a thing of the past if the recommendation published last week by the Farm Animal Welfare Council (F.A.W.C.) that all animals be stunned before slaughter becomes law. Both Islam and Judaism forbid consuming animals' blood and require that livestock be conscious when killed so that the blood pumps out. Animals used for halal and kosher meat must be healthy and uninjured when slaughtered for consumption. Although animal-cruelty regulations throughout Europe say that livestock must be stunned before slaughter...
...latest clash, on June 2, religious groups that control Pakistan's Northwest Frontier province declared that Shari'a law would be enforced in their territory?superceding the British-style legal system that is Pakistan's law of the land. Shari'a is the strict religious code that governs Islam. From now on, Arabic, the language of the Koran, will be obligatory in schools; girls 12 years and older will have to wear the head-to-toe veil known as the burqa, and women will not be allowed to leave home unaccompanied by a husband or male relative...
...this upheaval. Before partition, its inhabitants included Hindus, Parsis, Muslim traders, Goans, and Sheedis, descendants of African slaves shipped over in chains during the 18th century. An illustration of Karachi's surviving cultural diversity: at a one-room shrine that has more to do with African tribalism than Islam, women flock to see Mushkan, a male Sheedi medium in white, womanly robes. When he goes into a trance, he says he communicates with his jinni in Arabic, Urdu and Swahili. Karachi's demons, it seems, are cosmopolitan...
...Bangladeshis are the obligatory rebels - they all listen to Asian-rap DJs, fall into bad company, become junkies or run away from home. Even the mealymouthed money-lender and the neighborhood busybody are staples of Subcontinental literature, although Ali fuses them together in the unusually female form of Mrs. Islam. As a result, it is almost impossible to feel for these people when they are beset by their many, mostly minor, tragedies. It's hard even to feel sorry for poor Hasina when she gets so little sympathy from her creator: Ali leaves her story unexplained and incomplete. Hasina...