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Mullah Omar and bin Laden are animated by a vision. They really do believe--or perhaps did believe--that their destiny was to unite all the Muslim lands from the Pyrenees to the Philippines and re-establish the original caliphate of a millennium ago. Omar took the sacred robe, attributed to Muhammad and locked away for more than 60 years, and triumphantly donned it in public as if to declare his succession to the Prophet's earthly rule. (Osama harbored similar fantasies about himself, although he fed Omar's, as a form of flattery and enticement...
...will respect the rights of political freedom and religious freedom, and we are deeply committed to that," Ashcroft told ABC?s "This Week." "But for so-called terrorists to gather over themselves some robe of clericism? and claim immunity from being observed, people who hijack a religion and make out of it an implement of war will not be free from our interest...
...corner stand a couple of familiar looking TFs dressed as the gender gap, each one with stereotypical male or female complaints taped to every corner of their matching outfits. Professor Mansfield is chatting it up in the corner dressed, as he put it, in “a robe, Renaissance style hat and an evil-looking smile.” (He’s Machiavelli.) Over by the hors d’oeuvres table you spot a graduate student with a fake ax protruding from his back and a sign explanatory sign taped to his chest—it reads...
...look the part, but he was a born ham. When the monks embarked on their first exhibition tour of the U.S. in 1992, his fists were the stars of the show. But the authorities didn't realize he aspired to more than just performing. "The monk's robe I wore on stage wasn't a costume to me," he explains. "I wanted to teach people Shaolin's traditions as they'd been taught to me. I wanted to do something real." Convinced that was no longer possible in China, Yan Ming slipped out of his hotel the night after...
...decrepit old-timers man donation boxes at each stop along the way, and then it's off to buy tiny brass Buddhas and plastic prayer beads at stalls crowding the temple's gates. For martial arts displays, a lucky visitor might spot a young boy in a monk's robe willing to perform a trick or two. "Shaolin," as American martial artist Brian Gray wryly puts it, "has become kung fu's answer to Colonial Williamsburg...