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...graft it online will indeed create a limp version of the real thing," he says. His opinion is echoed halfway across the world by Muthullah Tayeb, Web coordinator for islamonline.net. "We have to use this service for Muslims to know their religion and for non-Muslims to learn about Islam," he says. "But you cannot just go to the Internet to learn Islam. You have to pray in the mosque five times a day. This is an information source, not an alternative...
Your history of Jerusalem was wonderful and accurate in its acknowledgment of the authenticity and peacefulness of Islam. For many years, whenever the word Muslim or Islam came up, the topic shifted to terrorism. This stereotypical approach to the world's second largest and fastest growing religion has plagued Western minds. Congratulations on allowing many minds to know that Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion. AARON BROWN Jersey City...
...Israeli officials urged the pontiff to distance himself from Assad's comments, but John Paul II not surprisingly steered clear of the controversy during his visit to the border zone Monday. After all, his mission in Syria is promoting rapprochement between Islam and the Catholic Church, just as he'd tried to promote reconciliation between Catholics and Jews during last year's visit to Israel. But in Syria he may have bumped into the reality that it's difficult to make friends with both groups while avoiding being drawn into the enmity that rages between them. Indeed...
...Some important steps are being taken. The federal government is currently developing a "holistic language program" with German courses for both new and third-generation immigrants. Several states are in the process of offering German and Turkish language classes in Islam, and more and more kindergartens and pre-schools are teaching both Turkish and German. Turkish immigrants are fond of quoting the traditional saying, "He who is patient will always reach his goal." But their children's prospects will be brighter if they recite it to them in German...
...Hamas has had help from Hezbollah for years. But when the Aqsa intifada erupted last fall, Hezbollah's leaders saw a chance to boost their prestige in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and to expand their brand of Islamic revolution to the gates of Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest city. They aren't keen to share the spotlight with Hamas. In the past few months, Hezbollah canceled the training of Hamas operatives in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and in Iran. Hezbollah is still training Palestinians, but when it sends them back to the Gaza Strip or West Bank, they...