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...Bosher was asked to wait downstairs while the armed officers checked out the simply furnished apartment to ensure it was unoccupied and safe. He says he was then asked to witness the search, and saw the police remove documents, computer discs and a Koran. "The police took away some documents. There were numbers on them. There were discs. It looked like new packets of discs," he says...
...successful business, as an American - and as a woman, no less - in an Islamic country. After selling cupcakes to fellow expats in Cairo, she and an Egyptian friend opened a restaurant only to see the business and the friendship go bust. She hung on, learned Arabic and read the Koran to better understand the culture and in 1996 sank every penny into launching Lucille's, a cozy place with 13 booths and tables. One of her rewards is that she may be about to go regional if not global; lately, investors have been clamoring to franchise Lucille's all over...
There's nothing new about such tales of hardship and pop-culture dreaming, of course (Saf's older sister swoons to Hopelessly Devoted to You from Grease). But in Manzoor's telling, every sigh comes with a different inflection. This is a boy who kisses the Koran before wishing for a ZX Spectrum computer, and was so innocent in adolescence that he thought a "blue movie" was one that made you cry. When he and his best friend, a Sikh, head off to their first Springsteen concert, they go armed with the vegetable samosas and chapatis their mothers have cooked...
...other Palestinians, Omar is impressed by the honesty and focus of the Islamists. But he has doubts that the new, religious thrust of the resistance movement will lead to peace or a fair deal with Israel. For now, he says, it has only led to fighting among Palestinians. "The Koran says that if you kill your brother, you go straight to hell--and this is what we're doing," he says, outraged by recent news reports from Gaza of Hamas and Fatah militiamen killing each other in a power struggle. He thinks Palestinians should "try to fix our own problems...
...read in the mainstream media. Unlike many other non-Muslim commentators, Bobby Ghosh correctly realizes that the root of the fighting in Iraq (and in other parts of the Islamic world) is not religion but politics. The warring parties cloak themselves in religious garb and quote suras from the Koran to suit their agendas, but at the end of the day their objective is not religious legitimacy but political supremacy. It is amazing how many Western writers miss that point-and all the more to Ghosh's credit that he grasps it. Akbar Rehman, Los Angeles...