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...both young men began to yearn for jihad. Siddique's cousin Zahid Islam says that while studying at Gujrat Technical College, Siddique would increasingly express concern about the plight of Kashmiris. Mahmood's brother Tahir says he began to hate his job at a clinic, eventually quitting to join Islamic groups. One day, Mahmood asked his family for permission to go to Kashmir. "My father's initial reaction," relates Tahir, a onetime fighter himself, "was neutral?not bad, not good. But later he reckoned (Mahmood) had done the right thing...
...concluded that his belief in Islam and American patriotism were not incompatible...
...accusations of bias toward one group or another. "In the care of Europe we'd be a Serbian colony again," grumbles an ex-rebel in Kosovo. "We wouldn't exist." Perhaps the biggest benefit of U.S. involvement over the past decade is the message it has sent to the Islamic world that the U.S. can be on Muslims' side. Until the Americans stepped in, Bosnia was a celebrated cause for anti-Western extremists like Osama bin Laden. Dozens of al-Qaeda recruits cut their teeth in the Bosnian war. That the region did not become a hotbed of militant Islam...
...Americans want to understand Islam and what it means,” he says. “This is a very healthy thing...
This increased interest in Islam provides perhaps the best approach to preventing future attacks, experts say, because it provides a chance to address the underlying cause of the Sept. 11 attacks...