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...families and feel oppressed by the stresses of biculturalism, suggests Mounir Daymi, executive director of Britain's Muslim Students Society. This alienation is felt most deeply in the poorer communities. That's where you will find "some people who want the clash of civilizations to happen," Daymi says. Adam Armstrong, 35, a Luton teacher who converted to Islam in 1989 because he felt "something was missing" in his life, endorses that view. The volunteers, however few, are "devout Muslims, often university students," he says, the sort of idealists who used to go to Chechnya and now go to Afghanistan. Asked...
...have been hard-pressed to keep popular titles such as Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America by Yossef Bodansky and Taliban by Ahmed Rashid in stock. Other top sellers include Beyond Belief by 2001 Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul and Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong. English translations of the Qur’an have also been popular...
...after a day of driving around, McMillan is tired. As she drives back to Harvard Square to cast her vote at Gund Hall, she listens to the soothing jazz sounds of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong...
...Rainey acknowledged, “Among our clientele, there’s really always been an interest [in Middle Eastern affairs]; we didn’t really have to order many books specially.” At both stores, popular titles included Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong and Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid. But the Koran is also enjoying brisk sales. In seeking intellectual and emotional resources for coping with the crisis no material seems too esoteric, no subject so “specialized?...
...musical movements which preceded it. Both spirituals and the blues were rooted in rootlessness—songs such as “Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child” illuminated the feelings of slaves and former slaves in a strange new America. West cited jazz great Louis Armstrong and rapper Tupac Shakur as examples of this feeling of displacement in modern times. Armstrong wore a smile onstage, but he was racked with the knowledge that he could never be a fully-integrated part of society. This “double-consciousness”—the struggle...