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...group's practical goal is to "raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine"--in other words, to eradicate the state of Israel. Because Palestine was conquered by Muslims in ancient times, the land is "consecrated for future Muslim generations." Infidels can live there "in peace and quiet" but only when the area is under Islamic rule...
...green line may be the first irrevocable step toward it. "I was expecting maybe 2,000 to cross the line a day for a short time," recalls Serdar. But as of last week, up to a third of the island's population had taken advantage of the quiet revolution, including 25,000 Turkish Cypriots who have applied for Cypriot (soon to be E.U.) passports and thousands of elderly Greek Cypriots who visited old homes for the first time since 1974. Greeks and Turks treat each other with studied civility, welcoming strangers into their homes and sending them away with gifts...
...lambs are wedged into a conveyer belt that carries them from the holding pen to the butcher. Some bleat insistently but most are quiet, bewildered. The machine stops for a moment and Mohammad Hussain, a Muslim cleric who sees to it that all slaughtering at Birmingham's Pak Mecca Meats abattoir is in keeping with religious law, strokes a lamb's head as he waits. The lamb's eyes close in contentment for a moment, until the conveyer whirs back into action. Hussain intones the Muslim blessing, and then with a single expert swipe nearly severs the animal's head...
...like to read too much about the distressing aspects of life." Especially when it comes to Africa, McCall Smith tries to focus on the positive. His childhood years in what was then Rhodesia were happy ones, and "early memories of that sort are so important." He praises the "quiet decency" of Botswana, which he got to know well while helping to set up the nation's law school in the early '80s. "People don't usually see this side of Africa," he says. "They just see war, famine and oppression." Expect more happy days in Mma Ramotswe's future - more...
...evil eye from some people for not doing these things, or for not opening your house for these tours. You know, you’re expected to be both yourself and your wife in a certain way. Now, the whole world is moving away from the quiet little teas and all the rest of it, so these things matter less and less. But there was a time when it mattered...