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Unfortunately, endorsing the West can get you in trouble these days. In September, Italian Prime Minister Silvio-Berlusconi was criticized by the Arab League after telling reporters, “We should be conscious of the superiority of our civilization, which consists of a value system that has given people widespread prosperity in those countries that embrace it, and guarantees respect for human rights and religion. This respect certainly does not exist in Islamic countries.” His remarks were denounced as bigoted, narrow-minded and racist...
Unfortunately, endorsing the West can get you in trouble these days. In September, Italian Prime Minister Silvio-Berlusconi was criticized by the Arab League after telling reporters, “We should be conscious of the superiority of our civilization, which consists of a value system that has given people widespread prosperity in those countries that embrace it, and guarantees respect for human rights and religion. This respect certainly does not exist in Islamic countries.” His remarks were denounced as bigoted, narrow-minded and racist...
...ultra-conservative pundit, known for her angry diatribes against pro-choicers, Bill Clinton and other “liberals.” But her reputation reached new depths of notoriety in the wake of the Sept.11 tragedy. Coulter has openly advocated the wholesale destruction of the entire Muslim and Arab world. “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity,” she declared in her Sept. 13 column in National Review Online (NRO). Coulter’s piece created such an uproar that NRO refused to publish her follow-up column...
...Northern Alliance claims the Taliban has some 20,000 troops in Mazar-i-Sharif, whereas the Alliance can muster, at most, half that. The Taliban forces, which allegedly include a number of Arab volunteers of the Bin Laden-trained "Brigade 55," are better armed. And it's a relative certainty that they're more motivated right now: Running up the white flag is simply not an option when surrender would bring almost certain death. Contemplating the Alliance's recapture of the city, Alliance commander Mullah Ustud Mohammed Atta recently told TIME, "We will kill them...
...Civilian casualties and humanitarian concerns have prompted growing calls from European and Arab nations for a bombing pause during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins November 17. U.S. leaders have resolutely rejected the proposal, saying it would allow the Taliban and Al Qaeda to regroup. Still, political concerns may direct bombing during this time away from the major cities and onto the front lines...