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...that young men criticized Sacranie - who was recently knighted for "services to the Muslim community, to charity and to community relations" - for failing to seek them out during his visit. To be sure, the older generation has to find ways to reach out to kids who may otherwise fall prey to extremism, as the Muslim leaders' joint statement concluded. "The youth," it said, "need understanding, not bashing." But understanding is in short supply, even within families. Khaliq Ahmed, a taxi driver in Leeds, muses: "I'm British, you know. I live here. If I had to fight, I'd fight...
...people grew up in such an atmosphere, and from where they got this ideology that they can kill people. We have to educate young Muslims. Islam does not give the right to kill anyone." Kozbar ticks off a list of the possible causes of alienation that might make Muslims prey to the politics of hatred: discrimination, poverty and "foreign issues like Iraq and Palestine." Still, he continues, "these issues do not justify acting in this way." It's easy to get British Muslims to agree on one thing; few seem to view U.S. foreign policy with anything but despair. High...
...crash. A prominent politico (Christopher Walken) is giving away a daughter, and, as plot would have it, he's got two more to spare: horny Gloria (Isla Fisher) for Jeremy, foxy Claire (Rachel McAdams) for John. Gee, do ya think the lads'll fall in love with their prey...
...contraceptives. "Teachers are expected to deal with the subject whenever it becomes relevant, irrespective of the subject they are teaching," says Annika Strandell, the board's specialist in sex education. "The idea is to dedramatize and demystify sex so that familiarity will make the child less likely to fall prey to unwanted pregnancy and venereal disease...
...subway conductor. Lust at first sight has rarely been so transforming. Marianne's stolid features crack into a swooning smile. Armed with subway schedules and candy bars and tarted up in a dress that must have come from Friedrich's of Heidelberg, she prowls the underground for her erotic prey. Will she find her slim swain? And then crush him under the weight of a lonely woman's first obsession? Or does she have some darker fantasy to realize? Is she the Bernhard Goetz of love...