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There's nothing inherently wrong with the cupcake. Just like there's nothing inherently wrong in the Koran. But our society's twisting of the cupcake's role has become a sickness. They've paved the local bakery and put up a $3 cupcake store. Not only has the cupcake specialty boutique spread like a contagion to nearly every major city in the country, but nearly a dozen cupcake-recipe books have come out in the past two years, which is particularly amazing when you consider that, not counting dye, there are only about seven ingredients in a cupcake...
...treated well: apart from being kept in confined spaces and denied exercise, she was well fed and allowed to bathe. She also bore witness to the curious behavior coming from her captors: they watched Tom and Jerry cartoons when the television set wasn't tuned to the Koran channel; one guard insisted she interview him again and again, forcing her to copy down every word in perfect detail. Another, whom she describes as one of the better-educated guards, spent his time reading from the book How to Win Friends and Influence People. The Revenge Brigade neglected, however, to consider...
...pivotal role. He spent his youth as a street thug in the dusty town of Zarqa before finding his life's purpose in the terrorist camps of Afghanistan. After returning to Jordan he was arrested for possessing explosives and spent five years in prison, where he memorized the Koran and drafted cellmates to join his quest to overthrow Jordan's secular rulers. "Either you were with them or you were an enemy," a former prison mate told TIME in 2004. "There was no gray area." Al-Zarqawi drifted back to Afghanistan and passed through Iran and northern Iraq before...
...Returns to Jordan. Arrested in 1994 for possession of explosives and spends 5 years in prison where he refines his radical religious ideology and memorizes the Koran...
...Unwelcome Home Returning to Jordan in 1993, al-Zarqawi helps set up an extremist Islamic group but is jailed for possession of explosives. In prison, he memorizes the Koran and immerses himself in an extremist brand of Islam known as Salafism...