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...America was attacked by enemies hostile to democracy; we must defy them by keeping the population fully informed about our democratic responses both at home and abroad. In that way we shall continue to win the war against terrorism, both before and after the elimination of the threat of bin Laden and his al Qaeda network...
Given that we have criticized the Bush administration for discouraging media organizations from broadcasting Osama bin Laden’s speeches, we would expect the staff to advocate the open disclosure of information about national security. We can’t help but feel that if Ashcroft had chosen not to inform the public and this week’s terrorist threat had later emerged through independent reports, the Bush administration would have been subject to vociferous criticism on this page and elsewhere. By disseminating credible information about actual threats—even if that information is regrettably lacking...
...Understanding Islam” and “Spiritual and Philosophical Dimensions.” The Harvard Book Store continues to display a can’t-miss-it “Sept. 11” table, where Yossef Bodansky’s Bin Laden sits next to Matteo Pericoli’s Manhattan Unfurled, an accordion-fold rendering of the Manhattan skyline. At Harvard Book Store’s fellow independent, Brookline Booksmith, the booksellers have created a special section, “Middle Eastern Current Affairs and History,” that deals with the issue from...
...whether the tenets of Islam justify that position. Rather, what alarms me is that so many Muslims believe such a justification exists. They believe it wrongly, of course, but they believe it. And their sympathizers number in the millions, with the Dow Jones Newswire reporting that in Pakistan alone, bin Laden supporters account for 15 percent of the nation’s 144.6 million people...
...system of doctrine cannot defend Islam as a political and cultural reality. The apologetics of Western Muslims will never win the hearts of the crowds who cheered the shedding of so much American blood and the maddened throngs who would shed so much more. They will never persuade Osama bin Laden. And they wouldn’t have persuaded the hijackers of Sept. 11, either...