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...Some of the original students remain, though FNL intends to cycle a few of them off this season as well. Former quarterback Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford) is trying to start adult life in Dillon, having given up art school in Chicago to care for his increasingly senile grandmother; the Taylors' daughter Julie (Aimee Teegarden) may out her parents as hypocrites when she insists on transferring to East Dillon over their objections. And tragic hunk Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch) is off to college - if he can overcome his low self-esteem and bad family history enough to tough...
...That brings me to my second point. There are considerable difficulties in understanding it because of two false images, which are widespread. On the one hand we have the image of Muslims as barbarians, the traditional image of a Saracen riding out of the desert on horseback with a sword in one hand and a Koran in the other offering their victims a choice between the two. On the other hand we have Islam as a religion of love and peace, like the Quakers but without their aggressiveness. Both of these are, of course, nonsense. Both are wildly exaggerated...
...wild man image, as you put it, of the Saracen with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other...
...importantly, that of many of the most outspoken and influential defenders of the United States. It is not insignificant that Bush has spoken more than once since then of a crusade, a violent movement that has the cross of Christianity at its core and, once upon a time, the Saracen as its target. Today, in the midst of so much confusion, it remains to be seen to what degree the recent murders (or robberies gone bad) of a Pakistani-born Muslim in Texas, an Indian Sikh in Arizona, and an Egyptian Christian in California are part of a crusade that...
Life has not always been tranquil at the monastery, founded at the end of the 4th century by St. Honorat. Five hundred monks were massacred in 782 by Saracen pirates, who frequently conducted raids until a fortified monastery jutting out into the sea was built in 1073. Both island and monastery changed hands numerous times before they were turned over to the current order of Cistercian monks...