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“Islamism is fascism”
Eric Boehlert
Daniel Pipes says
leading American Muslim groups want
Islamic law to rule the U.S. -- even if they
won't admit it -- and must be carefully watched.
The Turkey card
Anthony York
The secular, majority-Muslim nation, whose special forces are now backing the U.S. in Afghanistan, is a crucial coalition partner, says author Stephen Kinzer.
Hand-held terror
Paul J. Caffera
Shoulder-launched missiles are cheap, portable and deadly against lumbering commercial jets -- and terrorists in the U.S. may already have them.
The reluctant ally
Ben Barber
Caught between the U.S. and domestic Islamic militants, Saudi Arabia won't silence its critics with belated promises to crack down on bin Laden's cash flow.
Salon’s Sept. 11 book list
Salon Staff
Our updated selection of recommended reading for those hungry to learn more about the crisis facing the U.S.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
Laura Miller
Is he a cog in a vast wheel of state-sponsored terrorism -- or a new breed of freelance evil genius?
The making of Osama bin Laden
Jason Burke
From Saudi rich boy to the world's most wanted man: A British newspaper painstakingly retraces the development of a terrorist mastermind.
A Jew in the mosque
Suzy Hansen
A self-described "average Israeli" talks about his daring journey to pray with the Holy Land's Muslims and Christians -- and why Arafat cannot head a Palestinian state.
Getting high with the Sufis
Sean Kenny
A British journalist spends a night in a Pakistani graveyard with the drummers and dancers of Islam's Aquarian branch.
Stuck in the Gulf
Damien Cave
Could Central Asian oil, piped through a rebuilt Afghanistan, wean the West from the Mideast? Chances are slim.
A memo to Americans
M.A. Muqtedar Khan
An Islamic scholar suggests that the roots of Muslim anger against the U.S. lie not in the religion itself, but in the political misery of its believers.
Fundamental problems
Max Garrone
Religious writer Karen Armstrong explains why Muslim nations have difficulty with democracy and the qualities that all forms of fundamentalism share.
Afghanistan’s land mine nightmare
Janelle Brown
Mines killed 1,100 Afghans last year, and injured up to 100 more a week. Now American ground troops head to a battlefield littered with 10 million mines -- and the conflict could leave more behind.
The Arab baby boom
Eric Boehlert
Idle youth in the Middle East provide easy recruits for extremist groups -- and there are more every year.
A thousand and one e-mails
Katharine Mieszkowski
The Taliban has declared the Internet un-Islamic, but elsewhere in the Muslim world, going online is one way to avoid the censors.
Girls and their gas masks
Arianna Huffington
Fears about biological warfare are breaking along gender lines.
Movies of the Middle East
Janelle Brown
Middle Eastern cinema provides a rich and complex look at a region that has suddenly moved to center stage.
“Baran”
Stephanie Zacharek
Iranian boy meets Afghan girl in a Middle Eastern film that might make it out of the art house.
Plague fears
Suzy Hansen
A bioterrorism expert talks about the wicked ways of anthrax and the even deadlier potential scourge of smallpox.
Watching the explosions from “Afghan Town”
David Talbot
Afghan-American intellectuals and journalists hope the U.S. is a rescuer, not a destroyer.
War and peace
Gary Kamiya
Our fight against terrorism gives the U.S. a historic opportunity to become a kinder, gentler force in the world
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