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...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...
...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...
...scene was similar on Monday when I sat in the press gallery and watched Saddam arrive in his natty dark suit with a silk pocket square, his improbably black hair and greying beard neatly trimmed. He sat quietly with his Koran in his lap for the first two hours, as his newly appointed lawyers offered an ad hoc defense. His co-defendants had already interrupted the proceedings to say they object to the attorneys brought in after the entire defense team boycotted the removal of the previous judge last week, but Saddam stayed mum. That is until the judge admonished...
...Just moments after the session began, Saddam stood up and asked to leave. The presiding judge refused, and Saddam replied by pulling a piece of paper out of his Koran and reading a 15-minute speech. After a heated exchange, Judge Mohammad al-Ubeidy had him sent back...
...going to ?look into? the gunpoint conversions of (subsequently released) Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig . The implication seemed to be that we were willfully ignoring a contemporary proof of the old accusation that Islam is a faith spread at the edge of a sword, despite the Koran verse, ?Let there be no compulsion of religion.? The forced-conversion theme was enthusiastically taken up by conservative blogs. Then it ebbed somewhat, for reasons that will become evident...