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Whenever a Western country attacks a Muslim nation, it runs the risk of sparking a backlash among the "ummah" - even if it drops food as a gesture of goodwill to the civilian population. And that gives the politically precarious regimes of the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia that...
Islam did not impose itself by the sword. In a statement in which the Arabic is extremely emphatic, the Koran insists, "There must be no coercion in matters of faith!" (2: 256). Constantly Muslims are enjoined to respect Jews and Christians, the "People of the Book," who worship the same...
He touched upon the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11th—a theme that was common to many of the sermons delivered over the course of the holiday.
Hauerwas is happy to say that his rise to prominence is not the result of any special intellectual gift. He has always said that he is no smarter than other people but that he will "damn well outwork 'em." Salty in speech, given to joking about the "ontological superiority of...
At Khost, Janjalani made up for his diminutive size with ferocity and his oratory, honed at Islamic universities in Libya and Syria. He reverentially appropriated Sayyaf's name (which means "swordsman" in Arabic) for his group back home. In 1991, Abu Sayyaf struck its first blow by killing two American...