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...letters to his mentor Ebrahim Nana, who runs the Mill Valley, Calif., mosque where Lindh converted to Islam, Lindh has written of his dreams about building Islamic schools so American children would not have to go abroad to study. For now, he will recite a special prison prayer Nana has given him: "Our Lord, take us out of this town whose people are oppressors and raise for us from yourself one who will protect us." Says Nana: "Allah has kept him alive for a purpose...
...retirement ideal is far more active. The University of Miami Institute for Retired Professionals arranges for anyone over 50 to audit regular university courses or take five-week summer sessions, with such classes as creative writing, literature, drawing, computers and a newly added course on Middle East politics and Islam. "A lot of folks are here every day," the institute's director, Noreen Frye, says of the over-50 set. "Others are active with their church or synagogue, and some have gone back to work or consult or have started new careers." Most of the students are between...
...question is: Who is killing them? As the deaths began to mount, the government at first blamed Muslim separatists. A group calling itself the Pattani Islam Mujahadeen grabbed attention by posting the bounty for cop killings. But the Mujahadeen have never made any political demands, and some doubt they even exist. Vairoj says they do, and claims he made contact with them in the jungle. A few, he says, have received combat training in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dangerous as this group may be, however, almost no one believes there are enough Mujahadeen in Thailand to have wreaked all this mayhem...
...Islam is central to the identity of the Saudi state, whose influence in the Muslim world is based on its stewardship of Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam. The al-Saud family has held on to power by placating the kingdom's religious establishment, which is dominated by descendants of the 18th century Muslim cleric Mohammed bin Abdul Wahhab. To defuse the religious leaders' hostility to modernization, the Sauds gave the Wahhabists broad power to dispense their forbidding brand of Islam in the country's mosques and schools and to regulate daily life in the kingdom. During...
...remote mountain city in the southern province of Asir, where four of the hijackers were raised and locals still celebrate all "the Fifteen," as the group is called. "Their friends are really proud of them," says Ghazi al Gamdhi, 22, a university student. "They think the Fifteen were protecting Islam. Most of the guys here want to become heroes protecting Islam...