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...history of using neighbors to spy on one another, can Chinese Christians really think that Big Brother isn't watching them pray as well? John Chi Fort Lee, New Jersey, U.S. Converts to Islam Re "Allah's Recruits" [Aug. 28]: it was interesting to read about Westerners like Jamal Harwood who have converted to Islam. Western countries offer the freedom to convert. But in Saudi Arabia, the heart of Islam, with the sacred city of Mecca, it is against the law for Muslims to convert. I believe in freedom of religion, but I fear converts more than those born into...
...developing a nuclear weapon, were not taking the threat seriously enough. (The fact that one of the report's authors was Frederick Fleitz, an ex-CIA officer who had worked for a leading Bush Administration hawk, now-U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, also raised some eyebrows - though committee spokesman Jamal Ware said the report was bipartisan and was begun before Fleitz joined the staff...
...Jamal Harwood prays five times a day. He doesn't drink, smoke or eat pork. He's active in his local Muslim community, and he's very serious about the need for an Islamic state. But if you passed him on the street, you would have no idea. Not just because Harwood, a financial consultant in London, wears a suit instead of traditional Muslim dress. Or because he keeps his beard cropped fashionably close. But because he's white...
...Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001 is "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, who is believed to have converted to Islam while in a young offenders' prison during the mid-1990s. And one of the July 7 London bombers, Jamaican-born Germaine Lindsay, reportedly changed his name to Jamal when he converted and was married to a white woman, also a convert, with whom he had a young...
...Inside his air-conditioned office, looking out on the street where the drama plays out, Arafat Jamal, the senior regional officer for the UNHCR, tells me that in one week, 400,000 people in Lebanon - 10% of the country's population - have been displaced. The people in the street below him will not be taken out of the country, he said, but instead moved to "safe havens" in schools in the mountains and near Tripoli in the north. He looks tired, and he should be; he's incredibly short-staffed at the moment because the Lebanese employees of the UNHCR...