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A Muslim In A Jewish Land By: Tashbih Sayyed, Ph. D. (The writer is editor-in-chief of Pakistan Today and Muslim World Today, California-based weekly newspapers, president of Council for Democracy and Tolerance and adjunct fellow of Hudson Institute.) As I boarded EL AL flight LY 0008 for Tel Aviv on November 14, 2005 with my wife, Kiran, my mind was busy arranging and re-arranging the list of things I intended to accomplish. I wanted to use my first visit to Israel to feel the strength of the Jewish spirit that refuses to give in to evil forces despite thousand of...

The failed state of Post Soviet Afghanistan proved to be a heaven for the radical Islamists. They consolidated their advances made during the "Jihad" against Communist infidels and prepared for a long war against the non-Wahhabi world. The jihad in Afghanistan had also contributed in the Palestinization of the Muslim world. The Arabs under the command of Osama bin Laden used the gathering of international jihadists to spread their anti-Semitism. By the time Soviets decided to leave Afghanistan, a unique nation of jihadi Islamists was ready to fight Judeo-Christian world any where in the world. What they needed now was...

The Trauma Of Exile: A Meditation On Tisha B'av By: Avi Davis Among my many travels in the 1980s, I found myself in Istanbul, Turkey on Tisha B'Av eve in August, 1988. Fortunate to have the address of some Jewish friends, I was guided by them to a synagogue in the enclave of Nishantaj on the west bank of the Bosphorus. Access to the synagogue at that time proved difficult. Without my passport ( which I didn't think to bring to a synagogue) or any other form of identification, the guards, barricaded behind double-paned bullet proof glass, at least three...

Friday, April 12, 2002 Qura'n Needs To Be Re-Interpreted To Reflect The True Spirit Of Islam By: Tashbih Sayyed Osama bin Laden's father Muhammad bin Laden never kept more than four wives at one time because he did not want to violate the sanctions of his faith - Islam - as prescribed in its holy book, the Quran. But his faith did not stop him from marrying more than fifty women. All he had to do is divorce one of his four wives and replace her with a new one whenever he chose. Saudi interpreters of the holy book...

An Act Of Evil Beyond Words Palestinian Homicide Bomber Kills 20 CiviliansJERUSALEM: A Palestinian detonated nail-studded explosives on a Jerusalem bus crowded with high school students and office workers Tuesday, killing himself and 19 passengers in the city's deadliest suicide attack in six years. Fifty-five people were wounded. The blast tore through the bus just before 8 a.m., sending bodies flying through windows and peeling off the roof and sides. Rescue workers later lined up the dead on a sidewalk and covered them with black plastic bags. "Where is my sister? Where is my sister?" a woman screamed at volunteers...