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...Southern Iraq, local tribal leaders have sorted out property disputes and murder cases for centuries without the help of police and courts. So when Sheik Mohammed al-Ebadi got a call from a British officer to help defuse a riot in Majar al-Kabir, northwest of Basra, he drove there, fast. As he approached the village, he saw British paratroopers engaged in a fierce fire fight with locals armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The locals, enraged by reports of heavy-handed searches carried out by British troops, had attacked a patrol. When the fighting was done, four...
...isn’t one to hog the spotlight, though. He treats his shows as an opportunity to give emerging Boston rappers exposure and support. Kabir, another Cambridge-based rapper, has opened for Lif at nearly every one of his local shows. His intellectual lyrics and damn-the-man mentality jive well with Lif’s revolutionary outlook, but Kabir’s skills are still in their infancy compared to Lif’s awesome mastery...
...parliament. Many see the proposed laws as Khatami's best chance to deliver on reform. Student rallies are routinely broken up by the Basij, vigilante defenders of the revolution who shout chants like "Death to America!" and disperse demonstrators with chains and sticks. Says one student leader from Amir Kabir University, where protesters had their podium overturned and the sound system turned off during a rally last week, "These militia come inside the universities to create chaos while saying that they are maintaining Islamic values." On the streets outside the campuses, intimidation is also rife. When more than...
...recognized as truthful." If Rumi himself were somehow zapped, robes and all, into the present day and given a look at the vast spiritual Starbucks where he is the most popular flavor of the moment, what would he make of it all? Very likely he would echo what Kabir Helminski, a practicing Sufi and another popular contemporary Rumi translator, has said about attempts to siphon off the insights of Rumi and other Sufi sages without addressing their Islamic context: "We cannot steal the fire. We must enter...
...Bora area in a convoy of 25 vehicles that included four trucks carrying his family members and personal belongings. He was accompanied by al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and other operatives, as well as by senior Taliban officials from eastern Afghanistan including Jalalabad governor Mullah Abdul Kabir...