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...Analysts say that 10,000 pro-Taliban troops may mass to defend Kabul, which means further U.S. bombing still must precede a Northern Alliance assault on the capital. An offensive is more imminent in the vital crossroads city of Mazar. Kudratullo Hurmat, an aide to Northern Alliance commander Ustad Mohammed Atta, says, "The U.S. bombing is helping a lot. We're ready for a big offensive in the next two or three days." Fresh AK-47s, rockets and tanks supplied by Russia have found their way to the Alliance. Atta's forces remain bogged down 10 miles from the city...
...face of this awful reality, it is understandable that devout Muslims wish to defend their faith against the charge that it made so much suffering possible. And in an important way, their defense is correct. We have no reason to believe that, when properly interpreted, Islam’s teachings are consistent with acts of terrorism. I am no expert in Islamic theology, and so when the entire American Muslim community assures me—as Saif I. Shah Mohammed ’02 and Zayed M. Yasin ’02, writing recently in The Crimson, so passionately assured...
...heartened that the words of the Koran would be nothing to worry about if only people read them properly. But the defense of Islam as a 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...
...Within such a context, I am finding it awkward to present the facts about how prolonged bombing chips away at innocent Afghans caught in the middle of all of this. However, I am driven to defend basic principles of humanitarian assistance and to be guided by values that I have carried in my heart since I began my career in Uganda over 20 years ago, taking an active role in helping to heal what Idi Amin had destroyed...
...startled by the rhetoric employed by Epps, Jehn and McCarthy in their Op-Ed piece. What started as a principled attack on Hoxby’s resignation turned into ad hominem invective and a meandering rant against conservatives and living wage opponents. The writers passionately defend the PSLM sit-in as “in line with the rich and long tradition of principled, non-violent protest,” despite the fact that Hoxby never publicly said or implied anything to the contrary. They theorize that Hoxby’s resignation was merely a strategem against the living wage...