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...included in the aforementioned count—which was already approved for Gen Ed credit, has been approved for a second area. Ali S. Asani’s Culture & Belief 12: “For the Love of God and His Prophet: Religion, Literature, and the Arts in Muslim Cultures” will now count toward the Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding requirement as well...
...recommend for your transition-time reading a new report from the National Intelligence Council that suggests we reconsider the severity of the Al Qaeda terror threat. This report says Al Qaeda “may decay sooner” than was expected because it has alienated its Muslim supporters with its indiscriminate killing, and with its inattention to social problems such as poverty, unemployment, and education. America has a chance to defeat Al Qaeda by avoiding this mistake, by refocusing more of its efforts in the region on economic and social actions, less on air strikes...
...several previous incumbents of the White House. "The U.S. has been involved since 1947," says Manoj Joshi, who has written two books on the conflict. "They've tried everything." The dispute began when the two countries won independence from Britain in 1947 and the Hindu ruler of Muslim-majority Kashmir chose to join India rather than Pakistan. That decision has never been accepted by Pakistan, and a de facto boundary, the Line of Control, divides Kashmir between them. India and Pakistan have fought two wars and countless skirmishes over the territory. Relations worsened when an insurgency broke out in Indian...
With the militancy fading, human-rights groups and Kashmiri political leaders say the Indian government now has the opportunity to reduce the power of Kashmir as a symbol of Muslim grievance. It would take a grand gesture: draw down the massive military presence in the region. Between them, the Indian army, the paramilitary forces and the state police have nearly 700,000 troops stationed among a population of more than 5 million. It is as if the entire U.S. Army and almost all the U.S. Marine Corps were stationed in Minnesota. "A drawdown would be good, as it would make...
...Tunisian husband Abdessater Dahmane was one of two men recruited from Belgian extremist networks to assassinate Afghanistan's key anti-Taliban commander, Ahmed Shah Massoud, two days before 9/11. Since then, blogging under the pseudonym Oum Obeyda, El Aroud has been a fiery advocate for the jihadist cause, urging Muslim men and women to take up the fight...