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...blew themselves up as police assembled for morning parade. By the end of the week, the bombings, shootouts and guerrilla attacks had left at least 44 dead. No one claimed responsibility, but the government immediately blamed "Wahhabis" - their catchall term for Islamic militants - and in particular, the clandestine Hizb ut-Tahrir (HUT), or Party of Liberation, whose avowed aim is to create a worldwide Islamic caliphate. Senior officials also linked the attacks to al-Qaeda, describing them as retribution for the country's support of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. But to many, the haste in accusing...
Earle, who had been D.A. for less than 18 months, was pretty green. When it came time to decide whether to seek death, he consulted Robert Kane, a UT philosophy professor. Kane has written extensively about how to encourage what he calls the moral sphere--"an ideal sphere in which everybody's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are being respected," as Kane describes it. Sitting in Earle's home in the summer of 1978, he told the D.A. that sometimes, society must use the death penalty to send a message that it will protect people...
After affirmative action was outlawed in Texas, the University of Texas system adopted a plan to admit the top 10 percent of students from each high school. This policy has almost brought enrollment at UT-Austin back to previous levels, but it has not had nearly the same success at Texas A&M or at UT-Dallas, and at UT-Austin minority enrollment still is not proportionate to minorities’ overall representation in the student population...
...they knocked a little too loudly on the door, but otherwise they were very professional," he says. The surprise visit to Assem's Duisberg flat was one of a score of searches carried out across Germany that morning, as police raided homes and offices belonging to members of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party), a 50-year-old pan-Islamic political organization that seeks to establish a modern version of the caliphate that ruled parts of the Arab world from Muhammad's death until 1924, when Turkey's Kemal Atatürk officially laid it to rest. The police visited...
...Assem admits that Hizb ut-Tahrir's goals are incompatible with European political institutions, but insists the organization has no intention of making trouble. "People who say there is a conflict between Shari'a and Christianity don't understand Shari'a," he says. "But people who say there is a conflict between Shari'a and Western democracy are right." The problem in Assem's view is that "all men are not created equal, and democracy eventually lets the fortunate over-run the less fortunate." So Hizb ut-Tahrir members don't vote or run for office in secular elections...