Word: tradesmen
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...show [civilians] kindness and 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...