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...Prophet Muhammad and ijtihad, or critical reasoning, as ideological weapons in the war over how Muslim communities define themselves. Islamic scholar Amina Wadud notes that we are emboldened to take public action to reject the way extremists have defined Islam since 9/11. We are in the midst of jihad li tajdid al-ruh al-Islami, a struggle for the soul of Islam...
...Performance of the Week For two years Miramax let it languish. But with Quentin Tarantino's imprimatur, Zhang Yimou's Hero finally hit U.S. theaters on Aug. 27?and what a hit it was. In its first weekend the multi-hued martial-arts thriller, which stars Jet Li as an imperial assassin, earned $18 million?a record opening for an Asian movie and the second best for a foreign language film after The Passion of the Christ...
...mainland, which led several democrats to accuse Beijing of orchestrating a dirty-tricks campaign against their camp, though that has not been proved. The scandals have been noticed. "People are asking us: 'Why should we vote for you if you can't keep your pants on,'" mourns Fred Li, Ho's running mate...
...fable from the 3rd century B.C. refracted in modern skepticism, Hero views the birth of the Chinese nation through the murky motives of some of the first Emperor's potential assassins. The plot is a series of tales told by the warrior Nameless (Jet Li) to the Emperor (Chen Daoming). Any or none of the stories may be true; this is Rashomon with a Mandarin accent...
Hero is a reunion of sorts for the principals. Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger's young star, is a Zhang Yimou discovery. Decades ago, Li and Yen trained together as teens in Beijing, which lends their rain-soaked battle the tang of an ancient schoolyard grudge match. Leung and Cheung, who smoldered so wistfully in Wong's In the Mood for Love, get to express the gamut of emotions as a couple who know each other's tricks. They are Rhett and Scarlett, Tristan and Isolde, and they end their time together in an image so startling and beautiful that...