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...organization, include their names and addresses? And if the document was so secret, why would those authors translate the original from Arabic into Jawi, a rare form of Indonesian readable only by linguists and elderly Muslim clerics?and have the translation done by three separate hands, according to a scholar who examined the document? The address it gives, Wetan Nusukan, doesn't exist, though Nusukan does, a village notorious for its drinking and gambling?not the usual pastimes for Islamic fundamentalists. Either evil has got a lot more stupid, or as an Interpol officer in Indonesia says, 'This was most...
...simply a function of immigration. But that underestimates the religion's appeal. Since the early 1980s, Bangladeshi and Pakistani imams, often associated with evangelist Islamic groups, have targeted young black inmates of British prisons. "Islam is a sort of natural religion for underdogs," says Ziauddin Sardar, a British scholar of Islam, "and that's one reason why Afro-Caribbean people have found its message very attractive." Prison authorities have allowed imams to bring literature into the jails--everything from copies of the Koran to anti-American leaflets highlighting the importance of jihad. Only since Reid's arrest has there been...
...These are not cosmetic changes. "Our foreign policy used to be based on indignity," explains a Beijing scholar. For decades, the country, which had suffered the humiliating defeat in the Opium War in the 19th century, acted as though barbarian troops were threatening to sweep across its soil imminently. But last year China scored a series of successes not through defensive belligerence but by raising its game, literally and figuratively: it won the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, its men's soccer team for the first time qualified for the World Cup finals and, most significantly, it joined...
...China resumed their dialogue over human rights last October, and the Bush Administration has handed lists of political prisoners to Beijing it wants released. The pressure has seemed to pay off. In the weeks before Bush's arrival, China freed three prisoners: Tibetan musicologist and Fulbright scholar Ngawang Choephel, Wang Ce of the banned China Democracy Party and a Hong Kong man, Lai Kwong-keung, who had been sentenced to two years in jail for smuggling unauthorized versions of the Bible into the mainland...
...scholar of international relations, May has published extensively on historical reasoning and policy analysis. He turned to European history in his latest book, Strange History: Hitler’s Conquest of France, which was published...