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Which is why, thankfully, this is a view held by the slim minority of the students on campus. And it seems to emerge from their religious beliefs. These are the same people, who, a month ago, were crying bloody murder over the violent Muslim reaction to the Danish cartoons. Muslims, they huffed, were imposing their backward dogmas on the liberal West. It turns out Harvard’s conservatives are just as imposing and just as medieval. The irony, as the writer Arundhati Roy once put it, is enough to make a skull smile...
...government buildings and much of the city's historic districts were spared and no deaths were reported here, thought some two dozen people were injured, and it was no less tragic for the families who stood on the wrecked streets staring at homes and memories that vanished in a violent spasm of storms and tornadoes that first touched down about 7:20 p.m. Sunday roughly 60 miles southwest of Springfield and hit the capital an hour later...
...about another showdown: between Hamas and Fatah, the organization founded by Yasser Arafat, whose members do not want to relinquish control of the Palestinian government to the upstarts. Both Palestinian officials and Israeli security experts say that a clash between the two forces is inevitable and could swiftly turn violent. The feud runs deep. Fatah members are secular, while Hamas' leadership is guided by the Koran. Palestinians complain that many of Arafat's old commanders are little better than gangsters, men who made fortunes when they arrived from exile in Tunis in 1994 by siphoning off aid, creating monopolies, grabbing...
...violent protests in Muslim countries are not the correct way to oppose caricatures of the Holy Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper. Offended Muslims should have written letters to newspaper editors and published articles on the life and teachings of Muhammad. We need a peaceful literary offensive to spread the teachings of Islam to the West. Adeel Ahmed Qureshi Lahore...
...violent--like your movies. Why have my movies been so successful? People like action. But in my movies, violence is a last resort...