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...Qaeda with money, men and serious theological underpinnings. Saudi Arabia is a vast country in which local tribal leaders can be wooed and bought, as in Afghanistan. In Saudi Arabia, where a constant stream of tens of thousands of foreigners from all over the world legitimately makes pilgrimages to Mecca, foreign Arab terrorists don't stick out. Would a relatively weak Saudi government crack down on a rich, highly organized and entrenched terrorist group staunchly supported by the Saudi people? And would the U.S. strike a country that supplies 18% of its oil? GERRY FELDMAN East Brunswick...
...fitting if the next great reform of Islam came from the diaspora in the West. After all, the starting point of the Muslim calendar is not the year of Muhammad's birth but the day 1,379 years ago when the Prophet led his followers from his birthplace in Mecca to found a new community in Medina. "The very foundation of Islamic civilization was built on diaspora, on the move from Mecca to Medina," says British Muslim writer Sardar. "This is where the diaspora is very important: in creating a truly moderate tradition for the future." The new diaspora...
...time. Her pop culture references, her allusions to style, her grasp of what’s hot, what’s hip and what is totally passé, is honed to the sharpest perception. For advice on men and clothes, people flock to Jenn like pilgrims to Mecca. But, her style is so accented by a clear intelligence, that questions about Louis Vuitton are left by the wayside as Jenn’s peers listen to her theories on poverty, society and classism. William Julius Wilson, the world’s authority on race and poverty is Jenn?...
...Shibuya district of Tokyo is a teen mecca by day, by night a neon-signed playground of drinking holes and sex clubs for adult men looking for a good time. Mai and Rika hang here round the clock, part of a new fad sweeping up very young Japanese girls. It's called puchi iede, or "petite runaway." Home is what they're running from. Shibuya, with its 24-7 excitements and black-lit havens, is freedom central. "Petite" refers not to the size of the runaway, though many are mere wisps on the cusp of puberty, but to the short...
...religious education is producing a generation of angry and intolerant young men who are increasingly distrustful of the West. This is the generation that will come to exercise influence, if not control, over a quarter of the world's oil as well as Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina...