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...means "surrender," is related to the Arabic salam, or peace. When the Prophet Muhammad brought the inspired scripture known as the Koran to the Arabs in the early 7th century A.D., a major part of his mission was devoted precisely to bringing an end to the kind of mass slaughter we witnessed in New York City and Washington. Pre-Islamic Arabia was caught up in a vicious cycle of warfare, in which tribe fought tribe in a pattern of vendetta and countervendetta. Muhammad himself survived several assassination attempts, and the early Muslim community narrowly escaped extermination by the powerful city...
...remaining fellows include Michael Kraus, a member of the Dante Fascell Fellowship Board of the U.S. Deparment of State; Sally E. Merry, a professor of anthropology at Wellesley College; Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Armstrong professor of international, foreign and comparative law at Harvard Law School; Adam Taylor, co-founder of Global Justice and the Student Global AIDS Campaign; and Cheryl Welch, chair of the political science and international relations department at Simmons College...
Amid the carnage of the Middle East, some clerics are providing young men with religious rationales for slaughter. But they are the anomaly in the global embrace of the faith. The leaders of Islamic America describe such reasoning as worse than a minority opinion--in fact, a kind of perversion. Sheik Taha Jabir Alalwani, president of the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, has this to say of the Twin Tower terrorists: "If they claim they are Muslim, I would say they...
...deal with them justly." In the Hadiths, or traditions of Muhammad, the Prophet commands, "Neither kill the old...nor children and babes nor the females," and is portrayed as appalled to discover a woman's corpse on a battlefield. Similar protections pertain to farmers and tradesmen. Even the slaughter of enemy soldiers is enjoined if no war has been declared. "It's basically the Geneva Convention," says Jamal Badawi, a well-known Islamic interpreter who teaches at St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Badawi compares the acts of Sept. 11 to the murder of abortion providers...
Nine days ago, hijacked planes swandived into skyscrapers—the handiwork of terrorists, grim architects of hate. Apocalyptic blasts left a senseless slaughter in their wake, scarring the psyches of a generation. I saw a nation reeling with sadness and disbelief...