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...different. Twenty-eight Americans have died in the war since October, but the national mood remains resolute. Here, without argument, is one way in which Sept. 11 truly has changed the way we think. "The American public," says Ralph Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a military scholar, "is sensible about war and amazingly stoical." Who, six months ago, would have dared say that...
Your account of the rising number of Muslims in Western Europe quoted an Islamic scholar as saying, "Islam is a sort of natural religion for underdogs." Among the thousands of converts in England alone are well-educated people who are attracted to Islam because of the immense and profound meaning it gives to life, the intricate yet logical social system it boasts and the scientific knowledge it contains. To suggest that most Muslims are dangerous because of their beliefs is hazardous unless one clearly states that Islam does not encourage terrorist acts of crime. ZAHRA HANKIR Sidon, Lebanon...
...clear, my sadness came not simply from the fact that I have known Doris Kearns Goodwin for decades and am proud to count myself among her friends as well as her admirers. Nor was I sad to see that Harvard undergraduates remain devoted to the highest standards of scholarly integrity and simple honesty; that devotion heartens me. Rather, I was sad to see how eagerly these bright young people piled on to heap self-righteous condemnation on a scholar whose too-close-paraphrasing of a few passages even the Crimson editors had to acknowledge was “unintentional...
...different. Twenty-eight Americans have died in the war since October, but the national mood remains resolute. Here, without argument, is one way in which Sept. 11 truly has changed the way we think. "The American public," says Ralph Peters, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and a military scholar, "is sensible about war and amazingly stoical." Who, six months ago, would have dared say that...
...Relief Organization (IRO) opened offices in town opposite the bishop's residence. Embarrassingly for the MILF?which has angrily denied links with international terror?Khalifa's associate Selamah had been in regular touch with the Front. Reports from local sources, including some MILF commanders, point to the Palestinian Koranic scholar as having visited the MILF's main base at Camp Abubakar on several occasions before it fell in July 2000 to the Philippine army. Since then he is understood to have been in phone contact with MILF vice chairman for political affairs Ghazali Jafaar and other Front members...