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...foreign to you, you may not be talking with your neighbors. Islam is an American religion. There are some 7 million Muslims in the U.S. That's more than the number of Jews and more than twice the number of Episcopalians. Thirty years ago, the Islamic count was a mere 500,000. The number of mosques rose from 598 in 1986 to 1,372 this year. The number of American-born Muslims now far exceeds the count of immigrants...
African Americans are among America's most observant Muslims. While Yvonne Haddad of Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding estimates the fraction of immigrants who attend mosque at a mere 10%, many American blacks, with converts' zeal, memorize verse after verse of the Koran and are extremely serious about Islamic injunctions against premarital sex, abortion and alcohol. Most also shun MTV, Hollywood films, hip-hop and dancing. Such social conservatism also translates politically: the tally of Bush votes among African-American Muslims was 25% higher than in black America as a whole. The community is thoroughly patriotic...
...terror suggests it will one day arrive. There have been intelligence reports that Iraq helped train the hijackers and that one of them met with an Iraqi agent in Europe. Israeli intelligence sources, however, tell TIME they have nothing tying Saddam's regime to the attack. But the mere possibility that Saddam might have been involved got Wolfowitz's juices flowing. The leading advocate within the Administration for a policy of "regime change" in Baghdad, Wolfowitz has been convinced of Iraq's menace since long before the Gulf War. In 1979, as an analyst in the Pentagon, he authored...
...Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transexual and Supporters’ Alliance (BGLTSA) must not be a space for attempts at conversion to or from Christianity, nor conversions of sexual orientation. The only conversions should be conversions of heart, to an increase in mutual understanding and acceptance—beyond mere tolerance, secret condemnations and disapproval...
...perhaps the Bush Administration suddenly figured it needed a heavy hitter, a battle-tested veteran whose mere presence would assure Wall Street and Congress alike that a comeback from the mother of all economic shocks was possible to engineer quickly without regretting it later. Because Rubin was a Treasury secretary for bad times - who made them good...