July 24, 2005 | 17 Jumada al-Akhir 1426 Hijriah
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The Clipboard
No tails or pitchforks
In a clear indication of how terrorism not only destroys bodies but contaminates perceptions, fellow travellers say they saw an "Asian man" with "a bomb belt and wires coming out". What they actually saw was a young Brazilian in a...
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veiled4allah
millions may be facing starvation in Niger
The situation in Niger: The aid agency Oxfam warned last week that about 3.6 million people, about a third of them children, face starvation in this West African nation devastated by locusts and drought. The U.N.'s humanitarian agency estimates some...
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veiled4allah
culture clash
So I'm reading all the stories about the furor in the UK over the police shooting and killing a man. There should be a furor because rather than being a Muslim suicide bomber, the victim was an unarmed Brazilian. But...