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...mostly Indian congregation but also because he was "on his own," meaning already devoted to Islam and without a referral from another Muslim. The two teenagers struck up a friendship and frequently spent the 20 minutes between Walker's house and the mosque in rapt discussion of the Koran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taliban Next Door | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...time has come to stop exporting the Arab world's problems to neighboring societies." That paper has been critical of the Taliban from the start, but al-Ghabra's article was particularly bitter. Other Muslim journalists have written articles in the past few weeks about the misinterpretations of the Koran that led some of those Arabs to join the Taliban in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Opinion: How Do They See Us Now? | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...mostly Indian congregation but also because he was "on his own," meaning already devoted to Islam and without a referral from another Muslim. The two teenagers struck up a friendship and frequently spent the 20 minutes between Walker's house and the mosque in rapt discussion of the Koran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taliban Next Door | 12/9/2001 | See Source »

...name on his diploma be changed to Sulayman Al-Lindh. He never picked up the certificate. Soon he told Nana that he had found an Arabic-language school in San'a, Yemen, on the Internet. "The language spoken in Yemen is closer to the holy language of the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet," explains Nana. Walker also felt it would be easier to practice Islam in a Muslim country. In December 1998 he left for the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taliban Next Door | 12/9/2001 | See Source »

...father/son debate, much like my dad and I used to have over [the] Vietnam war." A month after the Cole bombing, Walker left Yemen for Bannu, a village in Pakistan's northwest, to attend an Islamic school, or madrasah. Pakistan's madrasahs specialize in teaching students to memorize the Koran. They are also reputed to provide thousands of soldiers for the Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taliban Next Door | 12/9/2001 | See Source »

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