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Armstrong illustrated this point with the fact that Mohammed once said of a battle, “We are returning from a lesser jihad and going on to a greater jihad to root out the evil of our own society...
...Koran describes war as ‘kurr’—something that is hated. It is only acceptable as the lesser of all other evils,” Badawi said...
...Whatever the deficiencies of the script, the very idea of interrupting a serial drama and using its characters in a one-time-only "play" ? for this cause or even a lesser one ? is the kind of fresh, quick-response thinking most of TV could...
...most important is that it was attempted at all. Whatever the deficiencies of the script, the very idea of interrupting a serial drama and using its characters in a one-time-only "play" - for this cause or even a lesser one - is the kind of fresh, quick-response thinking most of TV could use. At the least, it should serve as an example to other creative artists, who've thrown up the white flag, refusing to deal creatively at all with a time that demands their talents, pleading the irrelevance of art at a time like this - which...
...Friday night, same train, the lights went off as we passed into Westchester County. They stayed off. People had been trying to read the tabs, but now just closed their eyes or looked out the windows. Again no one complained to the conductors. I've seen far lesser problems create a mob scene among New Yorkers, but no more. We are still counting our blessings and, I think, we realize that public complaint about insignificant matters isn't just out of order, it's unacceptable. What if the woman across the aisle is a survivor from Cantor Fitzgerald...