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From before Sept. 11, mainstream Muslims have found themselves in a very unenviable position: constantly having to explain that Islam is a religion of peace to an increasingly skeptical international community. After every bombing or terrorist plot performed in the “name of Allah and Islam,” a procession of Western Muslims could be found on news channels and talk shows trying to contain any potential backlash on the greater Muslim community...
...problem has been that while many mainstream Muslims do not agree with the extremists, they have allowed them to co-opt the religion to further political causes. But no more. On March 11, a year after the Madrid bombings, something unprecedented and unexpected occurred—Muslims took the first major step in reclaiming their religion...
...revealing. In an ineffable way, it helped the process." Finn once described the show as a "Survivor for nerds," but he means that in only the nicest way. "I know these people," he says. "I am one of these people. We all feel a little outside the mainstream sometimes. And these people have finally found where they feel comfortable...
...Over the past year or so, blogging has hit the mainstream and increasingly people have been turning to citizen journalists and bloggers as credible sources of news,” said John G. Palfrey ’94, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School (HLS) and Lecturer at HLS, who himself keeps an online blog...
...While the U.S. brands Hizballah a terrorist organization, Tuesday's turnout signaled the depth of its roots in the Lebanese mainstream. The Iran-backed Islamist organization, which maintains a militia that would likely be more than a match for the Lebanese national army in the event of a showdown, currently holds more seats than any other single party in Lebanon's parliament. The party is the major voice in the Shiite community, which today may be around 40 percent of Lebanon's population...