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...Iraqi) not only as one of Osama bin Laden's council of advisers, the Shura, but also as a key member of the fatwa committee, which helped formulate the theological justification for al-Qaeda's actions. Salim derived his prestige from being a religious scholar who has memorized the Koran, and he would alternate with bin Laden in delivering regular sermons to the al-Qaeda faithful. The government's star witness, a former top al-Qaeda operative, described Salim as bin Laden's "best friend." It was Salim, the prosecutors said, who provided al-Qaeda with a rationale for "collateral...
...with a Western man, she looks around furtively. It is the same motion countless Afghan women make every day, the rapid adjusting of veils to cover their faces or the eyes quickly downcast when men enter the room. To help empower women, Nazir runs workshops that include reading the Koran, Islam?s holy book. "If women can read the Koran themselves," she says, "they will learn there is nothing in Islam that says women do not have the same rights...
...denouncing international dialogue through the United Nations: "Those who claim to be Arab leaders and remain in the United Nations, they have become unbelievers of the revelation that was given to Mohammed," he said. "Those who refer matters to international legitimacy have become unbelievers in the legitimacy of the Koran...
...heartened that the words of the Koran would be nothing to worry about if only people read them properly. But the defense of Islam as a system of doctrine cannot defend Islam as a political and cultural reality. The apologetics of Western Muslims will never win the hearts of the crowds who cheered the shedding of so much American blood and the maddened throngs who would shed so much more. They will never persuade Osama bin Laden. And they wouldn’t have persuaded the hijackers of Sept. 11, either...
...morning of Sept. 11, you see, it didn’t really matter whether Mohammed Atta and his cohorts should have found in the Koran a justification for their sins. The fact is, they did. And those whose words could have stopped them choose to keep a deadly silence...