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...accuse without evidence? I left prison at that moment. I went back six months later to a moment of critical assessment and grudging admission that yes, it could have been Muslims who did it and that they shouldn't have. It hurt Islam, it has given the West a pretext to smear the image of Islam and Muslims." The Radical islamists Ibrahim got to know in prison defy easy classification. "Many of them are going through a serious revision of their thoughts," he reports. "Some have become committed pacifists, disavowing violence, regretful of what they did. Some have evolved into...
...That is because the regime understands that there is no choice. Vice President Taha Yassim Ramadan said last week that Iraq was determined not to give the inspectors cause to complain. "We don't want to give the US administration any pretext to attack," he said. Officials are hoping cooperation won't only stave off a conflict that could enrage a war-weary populace, but perhaps even bring an end to the sanctions that has ruined the once prosperous economy...
...cappella group Mizmor Shir gave a performance before class, as singing groups sometimes do. Suppose that, right afterwards, Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert Vaux said that Mizmor Shir’s performance made a nice segue into a discussion of the vocabulary of Yiddish. Would I have any pretext, any justification, any reason, to accost Vaux after class and demand an apology...
Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction are a mere pretext that Bush is using to start an uncalled-for war in the fragile Middle East, which has immense oil reserves [WORLD, Dec. 2]. Saddam is a pain in the neck for the Bush Administration. But after Saddam's exit, who will fill the vacuum and control the subsequent chaos? The Iraqi exile community is a joke. Let Saddam's own people decide his fate. Dictators do not last forever. Instead of wasting billions of dollars to wage a stupid personal war against Iraq, President Bush should use the money...
...value system," Assem explains, "but we should blame ourselves for losing our way and leaving ourselves vulnerable to this kind of exploitation." As for terrorism, he thinks Sept. 11 "gave the secular governments of the Islamic world carte blanche to crack down on Islamists. It also gave Bush a pretext to grab Afghanistan and its access to the Caspian Sea." Assem was drawn to Hizb ut-Tahrir 16 years ago, as a 22-year-old lost soul in Vienna. "I'd grown up in Egypt, where my father was from, and then moved to Austria, where my mother is from...