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...papers pounced on the case of Aydarus Yusuf, a young Somalian who told the BBC's Law in Action program that he helps convene an unofficial Somali court, or gar, in southeast London. Controversially, one trial involved a stabbing in the community - a criminal matter over which the British court system has sole jurisdiction...
...papers didn't listen very carefully to the radio program - if they listened at all. The gar doesn't use Sharia law, says Yusuf. "It's not Islamic, it's not religious; it's just a cultural thing." And one the BBC reporter later conceded the case was a "rare oddity," which had been taken out of context by the papers crying foul...
Leaders of the ICU deny such allegations, but it's telling that they don't seem particularly bothered by them. "We believe the war against terrorism is a war against Islam," says the hard-line ICU national security chairman, Sheik Yusuf Indahaadde. "Those who are making trouble are not based here." Then, in English, the sheik adds forcefully, "Bush is the mother and father of terrorism...
...attend an Ivy League institution, and I am surrounded by people who devoted their high school years to trying to get into Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Does an Ivy League degree necessarily equate with success? Education is priceless no matter which college you are able to attend. ALEFIYAH YUSUF SHIKARI Darien...
...that all pious Muslims are fans. Yvonne Ridley, a British reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan and became a radical Muslim convert upon her release, recently lambasted Yusuf for "poisoning the masses" by encouraging "excessive behavior which demeans Islam." In her view, Yusuf's call for East-West coexistence is a "pipe dream." Yet the need for cross-cultural understanding and dialogue is precisely the message Yusuf is bringing on his U.S. tour, and it should get a warm reception. After all, even if his particular brand of religious music may not have a wide enough appeal...