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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...When Ahmad seeks to extract from the images in the Qur'an's Arabic -the outstretched columns, fi 'amadin mumaddada, and the vault high above the hearts of those huddled in terror and straining to see into the towering mist of white heat, naru l-lahi l-muqada-some hint of the Mercifuls relenting at some point in time, and calling a halt to Hutama, the imam casts down his eyes, which are an unexpectedly pale gray, as milky and elusive as a kafir womans, and says that these visionary descriptions by the Prophet are figurative. They are truly about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike's "Terrorist" | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

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