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...years, the Islamist gunmen of Hamas have been the kings of Gaza. But they ruled from the shadows, only venturing out at night, clad in black masks, nervously keeping a finger on the trigger even when they reluctantly agreed to talk to a journalist. But on a recent day in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood, two white jeeps roll up to an auto shop trailing the green flags of Hamas. The burly, bearded drivers step out, clad in black T-shirts, olive pants, and matching green Hamas baseball caps decorated with the opening verse of the Koran. Since Israel...
DIED. JOHN GARANG, 60, Sudanese rebel leader turned Vice President and key negotiator of a fledgling peace agreement between the Islamist government and Christian rebels in the south that, if completed, will end the longest civil war in African history; after his helicopter crashed in southern Sudan...
...Deadly Mentality In your report "Inside The Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber" [July 4], you made it clear that influential Islamist leaders are brainwashing young Muslims. That means, then, that those young people can be positively influenced by other Muslim leaders, parents, friends and teachers as well. The fight against terrorism will be won in the schools and mosques. And those institutions have not risen to meet their responsibilities. The young man in your article said he feels much closer to his jihadist brothers than to his family. Shame on the Muslim community for not taking responsibility...
...heart goes out to the bombing victims. I know that brave Londoners will bounce back, as they have so many times before. It is high time the British and U.S. governments go after the root cause of the jihadist problem, namely the fundamentalist mullahs and Islamist preachers who hide behind a fa?ade of being religious men as they sow seeds of hatred and violence among young Muslims. Those preachers are evil and should be treated as terrorists and fully prosecuted. That would rid the Muslim community of some real troublemakers and ultimately help young and mainstream Muslims. Rob Keshav Overland...
...they had no apparent motive to protect him. This lent their words credibility. The allegations against Ahmadenijad lost credibility in Iran when it was revealed that the photograph purporting to show a young Ahmadinejad escorting a blindfolded hostage was dug out by the Iranian Mujahedeen-Khalqh Organization, the Marxist-Islamist exile opposition group classified by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization. The MKO fought alongside Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war, and is despised by most if not all Iranians inside Iran. Still, many Iranians that I spoke to said they wouldn't be surprised if Ahmadinejad...