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...fought tooth-and-nail against Oslo's land-for-peace trade, and believes Israel's survival depends on holding much of the land it currently occupies in the West Bank. And it was to underline his rejection of sharing Jerusalem that he marched up the Temple Mount with a thousand police and troops just over a year ago, setting off protests that Palestinian leaders quickly turned into the current intifada...
...biggest casualty of last month’s attacks was people’s security in their ability to control their own lives and create a world after their ideal. Last month we all watched as church attendance nation-wide tripled and several thousand people showed up at one of the most secular universities in America to pray. As my father said, “There are no atheists in foxholes, and all of America’s a foxhole...
...found himself in Copley Square again, speaking this time before a crowd gathered to oppose any U.S. military response to the terrorism of Sept. 11. And this time, though it was only a few days after George W. Bush first uttered the words "act of war," more than a thousand people had turned out for the protest. "The antiwar movement," says Zinn, "has sprung up more quickly than...
...Josh could say that. In the fictional world of this playlet, everyone got a good scare, but no one got hurt, lost parents, saw dozens of office workers jump a thousand feet rather than burn to death. It was a lot easier for the fictional class on the screen to take his advice than for the figurative one at home. But that's one problem, with drama and with life, that even I can't blame Aaron Sorkin...
What do you feel, as a liberal muslim?" it's a question I have been asked repeatedly this week. Anguish, I reply, for the thousands who died and the several thousand others who loved and needed them. Then terror, fury, fear of the times to come, hatred for the perpetrators, vague guilt and, most of all, a kind of emotional homelessness. Western Muslims like me have become, yet again, the enemy within, for both sides. All Muslims are now seen as potential terrorists. People will shrink away from my son, who looks like a handsome Pathan. Abuse and attacks, already...