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Zainab Khan '96, a Muslim from Pakistan, said she was horrified and angry that a massacre could occur in a mosque during prayer, especially during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month...
...seems scrupulous about following dictates of conventional Islam -- no pork, no alcohol -- plus his sect's own rule of only one meal a day, an extension of the daytime fasting during conventional Islam's month of Ramadan. He speaks fluent Arabic, as he demonstrated by performing an Islamic prayer call in Syria while accompanying Jackson on a mission to secure the release of downed U.S. airman Robert Goodman in 1984. His mansion mingles massive concrete panels with delicate stained glass, marble floors, crystal chandeliers and a fountain between the living and dining rooms. But he shares it with several aides...
Anti-Semitic gutter talk of the sort favored in the precincts of the Nation of Islam has by now become routine in many places: from certain pulpits, for example; in mosques, to be sure; during prayer meetings in jails and prisons; and perhaps most significantly, in not a few black-studies classrooms on not a few college campuses across the land...
...killings occurred during the holy month of Ramadan and were directed against innocent people in prayer. it is hard to conceive that one human being is capable of such unthinkable evil...
...abused as a girl by her father, and her psychological wounds require constant, repeated assurance that her husband (who lusts for all women) desires her. "Prove it," Fiona demands, often at moments when Ira lacks inspiration. She grows excessively religious and further benumbs Ira with frenzied, eye- rolling prayer. He, of course, resorts to his anthology of remembered affairs to get him through the nights...