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...Iraq war. After all, al-Qaeda was originally founded in the 1980s to depose the Saudi monarchy, and that goal remains very important. (Just last week a Qaeda leader was killed in a shoot-out in Riyadh.) In London, North African extremists were preaching at the Finsbury Park mosque well before 9/11. And France, which has the largest Muslim population in Europe, has battled Muslim extremism for decades. Finally, as Bush Administration officials point out, every jihadist who gets killed in Iraq is one more who won't be plotting in Barcelona or Jakarta or Los Angeles. Denécé describes...
...Madrid and London, one hope is that the larger, law-abiding Muslim communities in Europe will more effectively marginalize their radicals. A British intelligence expert says British Muslims seem to be hardening toward jihadists in their midst. Muslim leaders in Britain--including the new moderate imam who runs Finsbury Park--condemned last week's attacks and appealed for tips to help find the perpetrators...
...feeling extraordinarily pleased with itself. Its population growing, its economy booming, reveling in its modern self-image as a tolerantly multicultural place, London was having fun. The weekend before the bombings, the city had hosted the last few days of Wimbledon and a Live 8 concert in Hyde Park with more than 200,000 in attendance. "London," wrote Henry Porter in the Observer, "seems to be the hub of the world." And that was three days before the city won the right to hold the Olympics, beating out a field that included the only other cities that have traditionally...
...This particular strip appears during the book's best sequence, about a trip to Yellowstone National Park. What could be more American than a road trip to Yellowstone? A month and a half's worth of strips detail the adventures, with each daily location noted in the lower corner, "Cedar Rapids, IA ? Hastings, Neb. ? Yuma, Col.," etc. It may be the first ever cartoon travelogue. King's interest in America's pastoral wilderness would become a recurring theme in the series, especially in the color Sunday strips. (The publisher intends to reprint them separately.) The color Sundays reveal King...
Loui Itoh ’07, a government and religion concentrator in Quincy House, is an editorial editor of The Crimson. She is spending the summer as an associate at the American Anti-Slavery Group on Park Street, in Boston, and now knows how frustrating it is to flag down pedestrians in the Square to give them pamphlets...