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Unveiling Islam: Author Challenges Orthodox Precepts; Aging Egyptian Says Religion Allows 'Freedom of Thought and Evolution'
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The Islamic state? A contradiction in terms.
Jihad? Far too much emphasis these days on military action.
A requirement that women wear a veil? A quaint leftover from pre-
Muslim times that is not mandated by Islam.
These and other observations by Gamal Banna, an 84-year-old
Egyptian author, have created a stir in Egypt recently. They are
indicative of the ferment within Islam at large, and of the
increasingly passionate discussion of political and religious issues
in Egypt, the Middle East's most populous country.
Controversy surrounds Banna's books because they challenge some
Islamic ...
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History's twists and turns; Sympathy shifts away from Israel.(OPED)
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; ...worthless soil, had almost deserted the country." Things hadn't changed much by 1881, when British cartographer Arthur Penrhyn Stanley observed, "In Judea it is hardly an exaggeration to say that for miles and miles there is no appearance of life...
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