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...Middle Eastern affairs]; we didn’t really have to order many books specially.” At both stores, popular titles included Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong and Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid. But the Koran is also enjoying brisk sales. In seeking intellectual and emotional resources for coping with the crisis no material seems too esoteric, no subject so “specialized” as to be off-limits to the curious layperson...
...document is a four-page set of instructions found in the baggage of terrorist ringleader Mohammed Atta, who allegedly piloted the plane that slammed into the World Trade Center’s north tower. It is a recipe for mass murder with prayers and passages of the Koran for each step along the way. This is the reality behind Sept. 11. These are the convictions that made men kill. These words—these deranged doctrines of death—are what the hijackers actually believed...
...expert in Islamic theology, and so when the entire American Muslim community assures me—as Saif I. Shah Mohammed ’02 and Zayed M. Yasin ’02, writing recently in The Crimson, so passionately assured me—that anybody who reads the Koran in context would condemn the killing of innocent people, I believe them...
When the fanatics who use an erroneous reading to profane their faith come to kill us, calm assurances that the Koran contains no doctrinal support for their position start sounding just a bit academic. But instead of confronting the brutal fact of religiously inspired anti-American hatred, Islam’s Western defenders limit their message to endlessly repeating that Islam, as an abstract body of thought, is blameless...
Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, is designated by the Koran as a time of prayer, spiritual reflection and fasting. Paradoxically, one Muslim nation is this year faced with the unusual, if not unprecedented, prospect of war during the holy month. And with no sign of an imminent end to the conflict in Afghanistan, American military officials must consider whether fighting should continue into Ramadan, which begins...