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...alert - "How could we be on higher alert than we are?" says one agent. But privately, the agency remains intensely worried about Al Qaeda schemes poised to erupt like fireworks around the sacred moment of Al-Qadr, the Night of Power, when Mohammed received the first words of the Koran from Allah. The precise date of the Night of Power, or Night of Destiny, changes from year to year, but it is celebrated during the last ten days of the Muslim holy month or Ramadan, which is due to end around Dec. 14. Analysts have concluded that Al Qaeda followers...
...Engagement followed their second meeting; "he looked like a good chap," she says, laughing. She frames her American experience as a shedding of limiting Indian assumptions for a liberating Islamic understanding. Her upbringing taught women "to take care of our husbands." But as she studied the Koran with several (female) teachers here, "I learned more and more about my rights as a woman. I don't do the housework now because I have to; I do it because I want to. There is a reward from God if I do well...
...that falls short of Betty Friedan, there is more ground to cover. Asked about the controversial Koranic sura 4:34--with its sanction of spousal punishment, including beating, for "insubordination"--Kareem, who is chairman of the Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, is bemused. "It's amazing how many men know this quote from the Koran--if they know nothing else in it," he says. Most already understand the "beatings" as light taps. Further study, he maintains, would reveal that husband may punish wife for religious infractions only and that holy writ calls for "mutual consultation between husband and wife...
...three daughters are enrolled in elementary school. Saida says her eldest daughter Nahid, 12, is getting ready for her betrothal to a 26-year-old farmer and does not have much time to spare for morning instruction. Besides, says Saida, Nahid tells her she learns at school that the Koran teaches her how to be a good wife and mother, instruction that exasperates Saida. "How can the Koran teach you how to live your life, how to take care of your children and your husband?" she asks. So Saida teaches her girls the really important things?how to cook...
...husband says the Koran tells him he can control his wife however he wants," says Banaz, 32, a mother of seven. ("Five boys," she says, jubilantly. "Only two daughters.") "But I have read the Koran, and nowhere does it say this. He is lying to me." Still, Banaz can do nothing. If she disobeys her husband, he will beat her, as he has done many times before. Once, she claims, he hit her chest so hard that she could not breast-feed her daughter for a week...