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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48743)	7/21/2005 4:36:39 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

The cancer that we overlook.. Sir: Raheel Raza, a Pakistani-Canadian woman, wrote in The Toronto Star on July 15: “Earlier this year, my 20-year-old son, Saif, went to Bitmingham, England, to visit a friend. When he returned, he was quite troubled. He confessed he was disturbed by the religious ideology of his English counterparts. And at Friday prayer in a mosque, he was shocked at the fire and brimstone spouted from the pulpit. Later, he took a drive with his friends. The vehicle they were in developed a flat tire. My son suggested they take the vehicle to be fixed at a gas station they had just passed... the three British-Muslim boys with him said they would rather walk than take their business to a non-Muslim. They proceeded to try and indoctrinate my son about ills of the West and how important it was not to integrate with locals.” The people preaching hatred against other religious groups are at the root of terrorism in Britain. And this is not a new phenomenon. The fanatics must not be allowed to poison young minds. MAHMOOD ELAHI Canada

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48743)	7/21/2005 7:20:16 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

July 21.. First Battle of Bull Run 1861: The First Battle of Bull Run (called First Manassas by the South) was fought this day during the American Civil War. Although neither army was adequately prepared at this early stage of the war, political considerations and popular pressures caused the Federal government to order General Irvin McDowell to advance southwest of Washington to Bull Run in a move against Richmond, Virginia. The Union army assaulted the Confederates under the command of General P.G.T. Beauregard, and the battle raged back and forth until the arrival of the last replacements commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston forced the Federals into a disorganized retreat to Washington, D.C. 1983: The world's lowest recorded temperature, -128.6 °F (-89.2 °C), was measured at Vostok Station, Antarctica. 1967: Albert John Luthuli, president of the African National Congress (1952–60) and the first African to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Peace (1960), died after being struck by a train. 1961: Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom became the second American to enter space during Project Mercury. 1954: The Geneva Accords effectively divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel. 1798: Napoleon Bonaparte's Army of Egypt defeated the Egyptians led by Murad Bey in the Battle of the Pyramids. 1774: The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca was signed at the conclusion of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74. 1613: Michael Romanov was crowned tsar of Russia, founding the Romanov dynasty.