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...Ghufron went to study in Malaysia, and a few years later Amrozi set out to look for him. Ali Ghufron had fallen in with a group of fellow Indonesians living in Malaysia, led by Abubakar and his mentor Abdullah Sungkar, who shared poverty and a militant brand of Islam. Abubakar and Sungkar had fled Indonesia to avoid being thrown in prison by the government of President Suharto for espousing radical views...
Tenggulun is a very religious place. In 1992 two brothers of Ali Ghufron and Amrozi founded a school there to train local youngsters in Wahhabism, one of Islam's most severely orthodox strains. Most of Tenggulun's residents follow the more moderate Islam of Nahdlatul Ulama, an Indonesian religious society. Rivalry between the two groups erupted in 1987, when the tomb of a local saint was burned down. The culprit was Amrozi...
...society, the Dutch are against the oppression of the individual," she says. "But when it comes to ethnic minorities, multiculturalism dictates that we have to respect practices in other cultures that oppress the individual." Last week her book, De Zoontjesfabriek (The Son Factory), which presents her views on women, Islam and integration, was published. Hirsi Ali's adoption of the VVD marks a very public defection from the Labor Party, for whom she worked as a political scientist. Her departure was prompted by the "politically correct" taboos that dominate progressive left-wing circles when it comes to tackling the oppression...
...local Bosnian man to the al-Qaeda network. Sabahudin Fiuljanin, 32, was detained six weeks ago near Eagle Base, the U.S. military encampment in northern Bosnia. Searches of his home uncovered a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, three passports acquired in the first half of 2001 and, most significantly, an Islamic last will and testament known as a vasiet, in which, a Western official told TIME, Fiuljanin wrote to his wife and four children: "When you find this letter, do not be sorry. Paradise is expensive and I did not have the money for it. I embarked on this exchange...
...pluralism. The Continent's immigrant Muslim communities grew up, to a large extent, from guest workers and postcolonial émigrés grateful for the stability and prosperity of postwar Europe. Too many of their children, though, nourish the wounds of social and economic exclusion. For them, militant Islam provides an identity and an explanation for their inferior status; it gives a powerful voice to their resentment, and defines a proud and confrontational response. In the U.K., where the Muslim prison population has doubled in the last decade, some polls found a near majority of young Muslims unwilling to fight...