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...bloody massacres each time Mazar-i-Sharif has changed hands in recent years gives them every incentive to fight to the last man. On the other hand, the Taliban forces were considered outside occupiers by the city's residents, most of whom are ethnic Hazaris whose Shia brand of Islam is held in contempt by the Sunni Taliban - and the Alliance had expected plenty of help from a fifth column of supporters inside the city once the bullets started flying...
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...Avenue's standpoint. From the perspective of Madison Avenue, this whole war on terrorism situation is a global marketing problem. And, by the way, that's how Osama bin Laden sees it, too. For him, the battle is in fact Coke versus Pepsi, that is, the Christian West versus Islam, two towering brands that are in a perpetual death struggle for supremacy...
...part. We can't do anything about the fact that we are, for the moment, supporting a military leader in Pakistan who overthrew a democratically elected government.Or that we are cozying up to authoritarian leaders in Uzbekistan. But we can do what some have suggested: show what Islam is like in America. And that means to get American Muslims to talk about the freedom of worship in America. And to explain that America is not a pagan paradise, but a country that respects religion, no matter what...
...Ramadan - even though he knows it won't happen. His concerns clearly resonate in the Muslim world. An editorial in Indonesia's Jakarta Post warns that "increasingly, people from predominantly Muslim countries are heeding the Taliban's call for a jihad, even if they deplore the radical brand of Islam that the Taliban have imposed on Afghanistan." The paper warns that "Washington cannot take international public opinion, which is still overwhelmingly behind the U.S.-led war against terror, for granted if the bombing in Afghanistan continues. Countries may still support the war against terrorism, but many, like Indonesia, disapprove...