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To: isopatch who wrote (3281)	10/28/2001 7:44:35 PM
From: isopatch	Respond to of 36161

Interesting comments from University Dean in Qatar "Crusade? What Crusade?? In an editorial in Ash-Sharq al-Awsat, Dr. Abd al-Hamid al-Ansari, dean of the law school at the University of Qatar, expresses alarm at the belief among some Arabs and Muslims that Jews were behind the Sept. 11 attacks against America. Also he notes with concern the popularity of Osama bin Laden and questions, "How did the terrorist become a hero?" Al-Ansari criticizes that some news media outlets are "playing at the strings of religious feelings against American partiality to Israel," and they are supporting "the image that what is happening in Afghanistan is a war against Islam." He maintains it is "dangerous" that the ignorant and misled are deceived by the cultural elites and moderates who say that this war is a "crusade." Al-Ansari queries, "Don't they know ... that millions of Muslims in the infidel realms (diyar al-kufr) – Europe and America – generations after generations live in security and tranquility, they have their religious centers and their mosques and their schools, and they exercise civil, political, and economic rights which are not granted to many Muslims in the realm of Islam (dar al-Islam)?" So, wonders al-Ansari, "Where is the supposed Crusade?" "The time has come," says al-Ansari, "to defend the investigations" into what happened Sept. 11. Al-Ansari, himself a Muslim, expresses dismay at some Muslims' "silence on the causes of terrorism ... and disinterest [uninterest] in analyzing terrorist thinking." He says, moreover, that one must not neglect consideration of the role of education in "the growth of the seeds of violence." But in conclusion, he suggests that he is nonetheless hopeful that "what is happening is the beginning of a real awakening" in the Arab world to examine critically "upbringing ... education ... instruction ... and the standards of news media." (Oct. 25, Ash-Sharq al-Awsat, Saudi Arabic daily, London)"