Word: prophetic
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...Laden's example may have been an inspiration for the Northwest attempt, but so what? If he didn't exist, there would be any number of historical figures who could be held up as inspiration, from the Prophet Muhammad to the four caliphs that followed him. It's little different from the extremists at Waco, Texas, who claimed their lunacy was inspired by Jesus Christ...
...specimen: the jihadist cleric who can communicate effortlessly with audiences in the West. His tone and his message can appear seductively conciliatory. Most of his sermons have nothing at all to do with radical ideology; they are simple translations from the Koran and stories about the life of the Prophet Muhammad. Al-Awlaki appeals to Muslim immigrants who worry that their English-speaking children are unable to connect to their faith. "He's lived amid such people, and he understands their dilemmas very well," says Jarret Brachman, author of Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice and former director of research...
...Rashid Rana's wall-size matrices, one of which at a distance looks like a handwoven carpet but is in fact composed of hundreds of photographs from slaughterhouses. But the better of the 55 pieces are subtler. Hamra Abbas' Ride 2, a fiberglass sculpture of the legendary Buraq, the Prophet Muhammad's winged steed with a human head, is local in its imagery. But the glinting cherry-red form also recalls a highly waxed Ford Mustang. Like it, Pakistan and its revving art scene are poised to drive into the future with one foot in tradition, the other in modernity...
...heart of Shi'a Islam is a 1,400-year-old passion play of political succession: the hero is Hussain, grandson of the Prophet; the villain is Yazid, the usurper of the Caliphate; and each year on the holy day of Ashura, their bloody conflict is re-enacted as a Shi'ite cri de coeur. Iran, the pre-eminent Shi'ite nation, commemorated Ashura amid its own power struggle. Tens of thousands took to the streets, chanting, "We are the army of Imam Hussain ... supporters of Mir-Hossein." Hussain had become Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the declared loser in last June...
...treated to the spectacles of Jackie Chan as a babysitter in The Spy Next Door and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as a brutal hockey player who's forced to become The Tooth Fairy. But in February there's the new Martin Scorsese, plus a fine French thriller A Prophet and the sequel to the parkour classic District 13. So there's reason for optimism at the movie houses, long before the next Leap Year...