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...ground their actions. Subtitled The Early Revelations, Sells' book features scripture enunciated by Muhammad before the Prophet's takeover of the Arabian Peninsula, and so omits lines arguably forged in combat, like 9:5, the Sword Verse: "Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them." From such verses emerged the Muslim concept of holy war. Noting their absence, Family Policy Network head Joe Glover says, "Sells whitewashes Muhammad...
That sentiment, apparently foreign to people like O'Reilly, is strikingly similar to the free-market-of-ideas case expressed in verse 5: 48: "Had Allah willed He could have made you one community. But...(He hath made you as ye are). So vie one with another in good works." --With reporting by Paul Cuadros/Chapel Hill, Mitch Frank/New York and Stephen Majors/Atlanta
...nothing wrong with a little colonialism - sorry, nation building - but it's not easy to get right. Americans should remember that the old imperial powers got out of the business in part because they never got any thanks for it. Instead, their reward was "the blame of those ye better, the hate of those ye guard." That's Kipling again. This year...
...with the rule followed by religious Muslims to forswear food on a Thursday. Before dawn that day last November, he sat before his mother to recite the chapter of the Koran his teacher had assigned him to memorize. "If two parties of the believers contend with one another, do ye endeavor to compose the matter between them," he recited, rocking back and forth as an aid to memory. Abdullah stumbled, and Wafa Franji, a teacher of the Koran herself, told him, "It's a little weak, Abdullah." The boy kissed her on the cheek. "This afternoon I'll recite...
...name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ / Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.” –Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias?...