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...Last month's arrests near Paris followed several sweeps in November, notably the arrest of Slimane Khalfaoui, a French citizen of Algerian origin. Like many suspects taken into custody at around the same time in France and Britain, Khalfaoui - a veteran of fighting in Bosnia and Afghanistan - had been linked to others accused of plotting terror strikes in Europe, such as the alleged plan to bomb Strasbourg Cathedral in December 2000. Recent suspected Islamic radicals arrested in Europe seem to have a number of factors in common: officials say virtually all trained in Afghanistan, the Caucasus or both; most...
...first-year said she heard that Summers “took off his tie and started swinging it above his head like a helicopter”—a rumor of dubious origin since Summers wasn’t even wearing...
...more important arrest may turn out to be that of Slimane Khalfaoui, 27, a French citizen of Algerian origin and a veteran of Bosnian and Afghan jihads. Material evidence has tied Khalfaoui to a Frankfurt cell busted in December 2000 as it allegedly prepared for an attack on the Strasbourg Cathedral. He has also been linked to Ressam's failed millennium plot. Evidence and testimony indicate that both plots were overseen from London by al-Qaeda's main European terrorism commander, Abu Doha, an Algerian Islamist arrested in February 2001. Khalfaoui has also been linked to Doha associate Rabah Kadre...
Aside from the degrading portrayal of immigrants of any origin, the article vastly misconstrues the Muslim religion. It portrays Islam in the way it has been characterized in America for decades—as a violent, emotion-based, patriarchal, inhumane religion. One of the clearest examples of this mischaracterization appears in Lee’s example of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is waging a public battle against what he calls “a culture of forced marriages and sexual abuse in the Netherlands’ Muslim immigrant population…practices she unapologetically label[s] ‘backward...
...universities ought to be able to weigh race in their admissions decisions. But true diversity cannot be achieved by considering race alone. “The diversity that furthers a compelling state interest encompasses a far broader array of qualifications and characteristics, of which racial or ethnic origin is but a single, though important, element,” Powell wrote. To attain a meaningful sense of diversity, universities must ensure that they take socioeconomic, geographic and personal factors into account, in addition to race and ethnicity...