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...easily," says a senior provincial official. "What we are hearing is only a facade. You can smell the disgust they feel in mouthing their new rhetoric." Sometimes it expresses itself plainly. Says Jordan: "We have noticed lately in influential mosques the imam has condemned terrorism and preached in favor of tolerance, then closed the sermon with 'O God, please destroy the Jews, the infidels and all who support them...
...pristine state of Islam by pruning out "innovations" that had polluted its essential monotheism. Wahhab's list of corruptions was sweeping; it included Shi'ism, the faith's minority strain, and Sufism, its mystical tradition. He discarded most of the interpretations of Islam's four great legal schools in favor of an exceedingly literal reading of punctilious ritual and enforcement by draconian punishment...
...Hotel Nizza If you favor picturesque over posh, book into the artsy Hotel Nizza in a beautiful Gründerzeit building on Elbestrasse, five minutes from the main station. Enjoy the sunset from the roof garden. Single rooms cost from 375 to 3105, doubles between 3105 and 3135, depending on the season...
...aims to topple have fallen. Still, the fact that the trend in the Arab and Muslim world over the past two years is to turn away from the U.S. rather than move closer to it has to be the single most important factor operating in al-Qaeda's favor. As long as a significant portion of the world's Muslims perceive U.S. actions in Iraq, Israel and elsewhere as innately hostile to their interests, al-Qaeda - and the wider jihadi movement it has spawned - is unlikely to be eliminated. So, they're not winning the war, thus far - but they...
...forwards did a great job in the second half of putting pressure on and it helped to change the momentum of the game in our favor,” Caples said. “We’re a little beat up coming out of preseason, but by next weekend we hope to be 100 percent...