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...certain fixation on the past took hold alongside a deep uneasiness with the present. Religious reform did not take off. The Muhammad Abdu project to renew Islam the way Martin Luther reformed Christianity ended at the turn of 19th century in disarray, opening the way to more extreme versions of the religion. Efforts to modernize the Arab language and bridge the gap between the spoken vernaculars and the written classical did not materialize. Public spheres--such as a free press, trade unions, civil societies--for debating matters related to the common good were not established. And most important, Muslims...
...foreign troops in the cradle of Islam is, for him, "the latest and the greatest" of all infidel aggressions against the religion in its 14-century history. By their very presence, he believes, the U.S. forces defile the Muslim holy land. "Now infidels walk everywhere on the land where Muhammad was born and where the Koran was revealed to him," he lamented to TIME in a 1998 interview...
...message broadcast Oct. 7. Intelligence sources tell Time that analysts scrutinizing the video have zeroed in on one sentence at the end: "I swear to God that America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before all the army of infidels depart the land of Muhammad." A former al-Qaeda follower has told U.S. intelligence officials that bin Laden would not normally use the locution "I swear to God" in making his declaration against the U.S. That may mean it was a signal. Bin Laden's public statements "are often used for more than one purpose...
Armstrong, a former nun, respected theologian and author of such best-selling books as A History of God and Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, defined fundamentalism as an act of panic...
...where she, as a child, avoided praying. The village is more congested now, and her old family home is gone, but she knows the way to her niece's house, where she and her daughters receive an enthusiastic welcome. Attiya pays a quick visit to her maternal uncle, Muhammad Larik, a 70-year-old maulana, or religious scholar. He tried to persuade Attiya to attend a medressa when she was a rebellious child but, he says now, "it was not her path." Attiya and the girls are almost immediately ushered into the women's quarters of his home. With money...