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Your report on accused world Trade Center plotter Mahmud Abouhalima and Muslim radicals ((Cover Story, Oct. 4)) demonstrates that you unfortunately believe Islam has a dark side. But Islam is a very peaceful religion. It is too bad that when someone does an evil deed and claims to be a Muslim, all Muslims and Islam itself are considered to be evil. Murder is not tolerated in Islam, and the murder of civilians is especially un-Islamic. The very word Islam comes from the Arabic word al-salaam, meaning peace. People fear Islam without understanding its true nature. Omar Reda Maple...
...actions of some of its followers. And please spare us the sensational headlines that promote prejudice and fear in people ignorant of Islam. If you had made an effort, you would have discovered the Islam that is attracting large numbers of converts around the world. You need a Muslim on your staff. Saadi Alikhan Strongsville, Ohio...
...cleaner way to do the joke. Cleaner in the sense that it might communicate to a larger audience - which is the thing that's driven me nuts about the urban myths about Obama. They hate him because they don't like his Christian preacher, and because he's a Muslim. Put those two together...
Asani said he is currently working on a book titled "Infidel of Love: Exploring Muslim Understandings of Islam," which is slated to be published by Harvard University Press next year...
...Kabul Fried Chicken is, if he is to be believed, the brainchild of Mirwais Abuldrahizmi, who long ago observed that the young people of the Muslim world like to express their cosmopolitan yearnings through their consumption habits. And returnee Afghans, like himself, bring with them visions from exile of girls without headscarves, shopping malls as social hubs, and the rituals of fast food. Many of today's young Kabulis are as nomadic as those who traveled the silk road hundreds of years ago, as the return of thousands forced into exile by successive wars enables an uneven cosmopolitanism to take...