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...abandoned as generals disperse to makeshift headquarters. Antiaircraft guns ring the airport where U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan landed for the talks that Iraqis dare to hope will forestall the bombs. "We want him to bring peace," says a shopkeeper watching the babies' coffins go by. "We pray to Allah to help him bring peace...
...Buddha posited no creator God; no Jehovah, Jesus or Allah. His Truths are so distinct from the primary concerns of other faiths that some Western observers see Buddhism as a philosophy or even a psychology. By the same logic, employed optimistically by Jewish, Protestant and Catholic Buddhists of the late 20th century, Buddhist practice can be maintained without leaving one's faith of birth...
...women in their homes enforces Islamic law. Islam gives equal status to women and men. I invite Taliban clerics or any Islamic scholars to prove that Islamic law prohibits women from going outside the house to get an education or take jobs for their survival or for extra income. Allah gave equal rights to women 14 centuries ago, but Muslim men took them away...
...brutal game called buzkashi, in which horsemen fight over a dead goat and drag its carcass across a finish line. Badshah Khan (Amitabh Bach-chan), noble chief of his clan, seems destined to win this fierce match, when the veil falls from the face of his main rival and--Allah be praised!--it is a beautiful woman, Benazir (Sridevi). What can our smitten hero do but let Benazir win the race and, to prove his love, lead his warriors in an ecstatic production number...
...last, a reason for Modern Maturity readers to watch mtv. In the video for Don Henley's newest song, The Garden of Allah, Kirk Douglas plays Satan. The 79-year-old actor, who agreed to take the role after consulting his rabbi, has no lines but lip-synchs quite convincingly--no mean feat for a man who's almost deaf...