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Because the Koran was revealed in the context of an all-out war, several passages deal with the conduct of armed struggle. Warfare was a desperate business on the Arabian Peninsula. A chieftain was not expected to spare survivors after a battle, and some of the Koranic injunctions seem to share this spirit. Muslims are ordered by God to "slay [enemies] wherever you find them!" (4: 89). Extremists such as Osama bin Laden like to quote such verses but do so selectively. They do not include the exhortations to peace, which in almost every case follow these more ferocious passages...
...first two acts of terror were perpetrated not against military installations or personnel, but against thousands upon thousands of civilians. To a nation that has repeatedly modified its military strategies to spare enemy civilians, such acts of mass murder are beyond comprehension. And although we have even seen photographs and news footage of rejoicing crowds escorting proud mothers to the funerals of teenage sons—youths killed at their own hands in suicidal acts of terror—we have steadfastly refused to believe that there are communities in which human lives are held as cheaply as the breath...
...that the black man should know himself yet not be afraid to use the tools of the West to his own ends. Mali's chanteuse Rokia Traore, conversely, is a diplomat's daughter who grew up around the world but uses her native tongue, Bamanan, and Malian instruments on spare and lovely songs like the feminist Mancipera, which calls for the liberation of African women from subservience. For Traore as for the American folkies of the '30s and '60s, mastering the traditional music of her homeland figuratively allows her to claim a true connection to her people and her native...
...knows that America’s military might far exceeds its own. It is already banking on the hope that America couldn’t possibly do anything worse to the country than has already been done. It is also hoping that its feebleness, abject misery and pleading will spare it more damage. Afghanistan knew that harboring bin Laden would earn them the wrath of America, but figured that the 2,000 or 3,000 men that bin Laden could supply to protect them from the immediate threat of opposition invasion was worth...
...what sort of haven is the U.S. now? Technically, and in the very short term, not too different. Alan Greenspan will spare no liquidity to keep the money market and banking system oiled and the dollar in respectable odor, and investors, by the time stock markets reopen Monday, will probably have found enough silver linings in the massive renovations and relocations ahead to keep stocks afloat and perhaps even bid them higher. Think about tech stocks - when the tallest hives of the financial district and the Pentagon?s communications center is destroyed, there?s a lot of capital spending...