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Tenggulun is a very religious place. In 1992 two brothers of Ali Ghufron and Amrozi founded a school there to train local youngsters in Wahhabism, one of Islam's most severely orthodox strains. Most of Tenggulun's residents follow the more moderate Islam of Nahdlatul Ulama, an Indonesian religious society. Rivalry between the two groups erupted in 1987, when the tomb of a local saint was burned down. The culprit was Amrozi...
...primarily a fund-raising exercise." Bryson will donate all proceeds from the book to charity. African Diary is unlike any of Bryson's previous work in both subject matter and tone, but it is still sprinkled with amusing anecdotes. There's a hair-raising encounter on a terrifyingly unstable train to Mombasa - dubbed the Lunatic Express by locals - and a storm-buffeted flight over Nairobi in a prop plane. The pilot, Bryson writes, "was bobbing about ... like someone ... being attacked by fire ants." The best travel writing, Bryson says, "makes people interested in the experience you've had, and that...
...Soviet army occupying Afghanistan. Bin Laden was a star fundraiser and organizer for a program organized by Egyptian and Saudi intelligence in conjunction with the CIA to recruit young Muslims from around the world enraged by this infidel occupation of a Muslim land, bring them through Pakistan to Afghanistan, train them, arm them, organize them into a kind of Islamist International Brigade and let them loose on the hapless Red Army. That program helped drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan in 1989, but it also built the foundations of the movement known today as al-Qaeda...
...scale stores are rare in Japan, so if you go shopping, chances are good that you'll find yourself in a joint like Yoko Nakamura's general store in Kamimoku, a hot springs resort hamlet of about 800 people, an hour and a half north of Tokyo by bullet train. Nakamura, the 73-year-old granddaughter-in-law of the store's founder, runs the place with two of her sons and their wives, selling beer and liquor, cigarettes, canned goods, toiletries and candy. Her store couldn't be more picturesque, with worn wood floors, shelves of sake that reach...
...Hindu majority and Muslim minority, you need to study, above all, the one man currently dominating one state. It was here, in the small Gujarati town of Godhra on Feb. 27 this year, that Chief Minister Modi was handed his mission statement when a mob set fire to a train, which resulted in 58 Hindu pilgrims being burned to death, sparking the worst religious riots the nation had seen for a decade. In the days and weeks that followed, Hindus armed with swords and barbed tridents rampaged through Gujarat. As Modi's police force stood by, they torched Muslim shops...