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...would have to say the prophet Ezekiel. He was said to have had buns of steel...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fifteen Questions For Joshua Neuman | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...most of the Church worldwide, John Paul II is venerated not simply for his evangelism and his interventions in the political world, but as the latter-day equivalent of an Old Testament prophet, standing as a bulwark and beacon against those aspects of Western culture deemed both ungodly and death-oriented. For them, John Paul II is a contemporary Catholic philosopher without peer, capable, at times, of almost Christ-like behavior (such as the forgiveness of his would-be assassin) and driven by an evangelical passion recalling the great wanderings of the Apostle Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pontiff for Our Time | 10/15/2003 | See Source »

...Islam's Other Hot Spots" [After 9/11: Roots Of Terror, Sept. 15], you quoted a Pakistani Muslim student as saying "Since the days of the Prophet, there are only two forces on earth, Muslims and infidels. And their fight will go on until Judgment Day." That remark reminds me of the Marxist view that the world is divided into proletarians and capitalists. We're well aware of the destructive result of this doctrine. Unless Muslims can overcome the simplistic vision of the world as a place of two antagonistic realms, of believers and infidels, and embrace cultural diversity and religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 6, 2003 | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...Terrorist Breeding Grounds In "Islam's other hot spots" [sept. 15], you quoted a Pakistani Muslim student as saying that "Since the days of the Prophet, there are only two forces on earth, Muslims and infidels. And their fight will go on until Judgment Day." That remark reminds me of the Marxist view that the world is divided into proletarians and capitalists. We're well aware of the destructive result of this doctrine. Unless Muslims can overcome the simplistic vision of the world as a place of two antagonistic realms, of believers and infidels, and embrace cultural diversity and religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...lessons in math, geography, history or computers. Allah's will as recorded in the holy Koran, the teachers say, is all they need to understand the universe. The system of belief is summed up this way by student Syed Ayaz Ali Shah: "Since the days of the Prophet, there are only two forces on earth, Muslims and infidels. And their fight will go on until Judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 11: Roots Of Terror: Islam's Other Hot Spots | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

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