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Faces of American IslamBy Daniel Pipes and Khalid Durán ur respective bookshelves groan under the weight of books bearing titles like Islam and the West, The Future of Islam and the West, and The Islamic World and the West. What is striking about these books — all quite recently written and published — is the anachronism of their geographic premise. With millions of Muslims now living in the West, especially in North America and Western Europe, the old dichotomy of Islam and the West exists no more. This presence of Muslims in the West has profound importance for both...

Radical Islamic leaders in Britain have issued what a British newspaper described as a thinly veiled threat that the US and Britain may face terrorist attacks similar to those of September 11 if they go to war against Iraq.Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, a preacher from north London, told Wednesday's Daily Telegraph he and other radicals would issue a religious edict telling Muslims how to respond to the "evil" of an attack on the regime of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.There is growing speculation that US President George W. Bush is considering military action to overthrow Saddam, accused by Washington of...

<p>In July 2000, the last edition of Assirat Al-Mustaqeem, an Arabic-language magazine published in Pittsburgh, advocated jihad – "holy war" – against the West.</p> <p>Ten months later – and four months before Sept. 11 – the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) posted Web-site justifications of "martyrdom operations," such as crashing an airplane "on a crucial enemy target."</p>

from the August 05, 2002 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0805/p01s03-wogi.html Radical Islam finds unlikely haven in liberal BritainBy Danna Harman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor LONDON - In the leafy northern suburb of Hendon, a small group at the community center listens to a young man in track pants and sneakers. The charismatic speaker, Mohammed Sultan, the son of immigrants from India and a former student in business information technology, is a regional leader of al Muhajiroun, a radical youth movement based in Britain.Speaking in staccato tones and gesticulating sharply, he calls for support of jihad to liberate the...