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This is the influence of the teaching of the Koran, the most potent and powerful book in Arabia for the past 14 centuries. In the holy book, God promised Muslims who sacrificed themselves for the sake of Islam that they would not die. They would live on in paradise. Muslims, men and women, even secularists, hold to the promise literally. Heaven is then the ultimate reward of the devout who have the courage to take the ultimate test of faith...
That manner of determined study typifies many Harvard converts. For Laura C. Cohon ’02, a biochemistry concentrator in Cabot House, conversion to Islam began with a reexamination of her assumptions about spirituality. “I came to the realization that it was kind of arrogant of me to suppose my beliefs about religion were superior to others’ beliefs,” she says, “when I hadn’t even taken the time to learn what they said.” Through reading and exploration, Cohon gradually developed an interest...
...TIME: Why are you upset with Muslims? Togadiya: It is a cultural conflict against Islamic fundamentalists. Muslims enjoy more rights than Hindus. But Islam is an armed doctrine. Hindus feel there is no one to protect them, so they have started to take the law into their own hands. The country is heading toward anarchy...
...TIME: And if this does not happen? Togadiya: The mood today is to punish militant Islam. Muslims are not in the mood for compromise. Until they do something to calm Hindu sentiment, things will get more and more violent. You can impose a curfew in one place, but there will be an incident somewhere else. When you control that, there will be a third place. The VHP only wants to protect Hindu society. But I fear a new path may be adopted by Hindu youths. The Hindu mood has changed...
...roots of terrorism will be severed not by high-tech bombing but by empathic foreign policy and social change. Equally important are educational programs within moderate and progressive Islamic sects. Terrorists have been raised on a diet of exaggerated Western "evil," and this can be overcome only by a campaign in which interpretations of Islam are debated by believers. There is also a great need for discussions by U.S. representatives--governmental and nongovernmental--about how the West will finally and honestly begin to address social inequities within poor Islamic countries. JOE MCFATTER Dallas...