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...free Iraq in a prosperous Arab world is in everyone's interest, and unseating Saddam would be a good start down that road. It's what follows that's tricky. The lesson of history is that reforms succeed best if they well up from within a nation, not when they are thrust upon it from outside. If the Administration seriously thinks otherwise, it would be nice to know what lessons it has learned from the failed imperialism of the past. And not just about the finer points of pigsticking...
...moral authority and international support as well as military might. If it acts against Iraq without U.N. backing [Special Report, Sept. 16], the U.S. would undermine not just itself but also the central pillar of world order since the last world war. It would polarize the globe into Arab vs. non-Arab while rendering impotent the only organization that might prevent a division that would provide the basis for the next, and final, global conflict. RICHARD THOMAS Bexhill-on-Sea, England
...really choked up when they see these Alevi culture centers popping up all over the place, and the school thing is big news back in Turkey," says Iraz Karan, 27, a Berlin-born Alevi whose parents come from Turkey. "The traditions that became Turkish Alevism exist all over the Arab world and are very diverse." Alevis follow the Shi'ite path laid down by Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law Ali, but with a twist. "Orthodox Shi'ites say the entire Koran is the word of God," says Metin K??k, director of the Berlin center. "But we differentiate between...
...against the Algerian regime made the organization a logical partner for Osama bin Laden. Since 1995 al-Qaeda cells seem to have imitated the G.I.A.'s tactics: using car theft, credit-card fraud and document forgery to fund terror plots; recruiting and indoctrinating alienated youths and petty crooks from Arab communities, then using their larceny to fund jihad. Police arresting cell members for crimes like these often never make the link between the offense and the cause it serves. In the Paris Métro case, prosecutors say Bensaïd, Belkacem and a group of helpers mounted the series...
...virulent, unrelenting anti-Semitism—not to be confused with anti-Zionism—replete with sales of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion taking place just outside the meeting halls. Ubiquitous flyers enthusiastically wondered, “What if Hitler Had Won?” The Arab Lawyers’ Union distributed books of cartoons featuring hook-nosed Jews. The conference itself was hardly better. Did you know that virtually all the world’s racism and intolerance is perpetuated in a country of six million with an area significantly smaller than Maine? That would have...