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...head scarf but fear they would be harassed. Zora, 28, says she has heard that when women go to Mecca on the hajj, the pilgrimage that all Muslims are enjoined to attempt at least once, they do so with faces uncovered. "If women can show their faces in Islam's most holy place, then why must we cover ourselves in Afghanistan?" she asks...
...evidence linking Yarkas to the Sept. 11 attacks is intriguing but thin. German investigators searching the Hamburg apartment once occupied by Atta found Yarkas? former Madrid telephone number in a notebook belonging to the fugitive Said Bahaji. Yarkas reportedly told his interrogators that Islam is a "social religion" in which contacts are regularly passed around, and that he had no idea how his number had reached the Hamburg cell...
...seventh detainee is Moroccan and the eighth, Luis José Galán González, is a Spaniard from a wealthy family and a convert to what investigators call a particularly fanatic style of Islam. Last July he went to Indonesia to train with the group Lashkar Jihad, which investigators say is supported by and allied to al-Qaeda. When he was arrested police found pictures of him dressed as a mujahedin with a shotgun in one hand and a pistol in the other. "When we put him in jail, he said he wanted two things: a toothbrush...
...concerned that a heavy emphasis on religious education is producing a generation of angry and intolerant young men who are increasingly distrustful of the West. This is the generation that will come to exercise influence, if not control, over a quarter of the world's oil as well as Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina...
...bigger challenge may be for these communities to understand each other. Heightened interest in religion, and Islam in particular, means that "we have the chance for interfaith dialogue," says Mohammed Naseem, chairman of Birmingham's Central Mosque. Interfaith discussions, whether formal or informal, among leaders or in the media, are ways "we can develop more harmonious relationships...