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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...other places, with the Jihadists and the Wahibi Sect of Muslims. Oil money is now spreading through Pakistan all the way down to Indonesia, Malaysia and Africa, helping establish madrassas. They're teaching and brainwashing kids at a very young age nothing but their version of the Koran, hand in hand with terrorism and martyrdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Rupert Murdoch | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...students take a course focusing on the interplay between reason and faith—whether in wars of religion or debates over stem cell research—is unique among Harvard’s secular peer institutions. Columbia, which requires students to read parts of the Bible and Koran in its great books program, comes closest...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett and Johannah S. Cornblatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: News Analysis: After Missteps, Harvard Cuts A Path Apart From Its Peers | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...their very origins. And with it has come the utter certainty of those who say they have seen the face of God or have surrendered themselves to his power or have achieved the complete spiritual repose promised by the Books of all three faiths: the Torah, the Gospels, the Koran. That is where the smile comes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Not Seeing Is Believing | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...writer and high school philosophy teacher who has been under police protection and in hiding with his family since the newspaper Le Figaro published his op-ed piece about Islam on Sept.19. Entitled "Faced with Islamist intimidations, what should the free world do?," Redeker's article called the Koran "a book of extraordinary violence" that shows the prophet Mohammad to have been "a pitiless warlord, pillager, massacrer of Jews and polygamist." The very day the piece came out, Redeker started receiving e-mail death threats. In a letter to a friend published this week in Le Monde, Redeker wrote that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did a Critic of Islam Go Too Far? | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...that Ramadan started two weeks after Harvard started. It sort of eases you in,” said Batool Z. Ali ’10. Tellawi described Ramadan as a “time to work on personal character” when Muslims focus on charity and reading the Koran. Because many students have fasted during the holy month for years, they said they had no problems observing the holiday with classes in full session. “Ramadan makes you tired. You wake up early, you don’t eat, you don’t drink...

Author: By Madeline M.G. Haas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Celebrate Ramadan | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

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