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...force must transcend traditional military culture as well. The State Department would have to be directly involved in the training, which would include some basic diplomatic skills-knowledge of Islamic culture and mores, familiarity with the Koran and language proficiency. The X-Peacekeepers would also have to train for basic policing-how to talk to people, become part of the community and solicit information. An excellent model exists in the 24-week residential training devised for the Police Corps, an ?lite national-service program that transforms college students into police officers. In fact, Police Corps and special-forces training...
...courage and denounce terrorism loud and clear without any ambiguity. Unfortunately, at present their denunciations are normally diluted with words citing the cause behind terrorist activities, conveying a message of vague justification. Surely there are many Islamic scholars and clerics who do not believe that any part of the Koran preaches the killing of innocents, but they choose to be mute. Sujit Chakravarty Calcutta...
...Arab diplomats. Over the past two years, some 200 Arab families have moved to Bonn from around Germany to send their children to the school. Classes are taught in Arabic and, as in Saudi schools, the curriculum is based on Wahhabism, a rigorous brand of Islam that accepts the Koran as literal truth. Concerns about the academy peaked in early October when Panorama, a popular tele-vision program, aired a video purporting to show the school's Imam and teacher, Anas Bayram, telling parents how to train their children in spear throwing, swimming and horseback riding in order to prepare...
...shadow of a mosque's arches, enduring the hard stone floor and swarming clouds of flies. Suddenly the call to prayer resounds through a loudspeaker. The boys spring up to wash in ritual preparation. Starting as young as 8, these boys spend six hours a day memorizing the Koran, with breaks only for rest and prayer. The students get no lessons in math, geography, history or computers. Allah's will as recorded in the holy Koran, the teachers say, is all they need to understand the universe. The system of belief is summed up this way by student Syed Ayaz...
...surveys that reveal a rising religious consciousness in a country struggling to find its democratic footing since the downfall of dictator Suharto in 1998. Some people are adopting more puritanical versions of Islamic practice, the surveys show. But most are finding solace in characteristically tolerant forms that blend the Koran with local traditions like Javanese mysticism. Until the bombings, Makruf didn't know that a small Islamist group was combining an ultra-orthodox reading of the holy book with avowedly anti-Western militancy and was waging terrorist attacks in the name of those beliefs. "I was surprised by the existence...