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    THE WEST AND ITS OTHER: LITERARY RESPONSES TO 9/11 MOHAN G. RAMANAN University of Hyderabad mohan1949@rediffmail.com 125 Terror is now a part of our lives. Whether it is the bombing of defenceless villages in Afghanistan or Iraq‚ or the slaying of Daniel Pearl‚ terror is perpetrated by different people for different purposes. Terror is the employment of strategies to instill fear and insecurity in the victim. This can be achieved by the deliberate targeting of women and children as

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    Religion and Women in the Middle East Religion goes hand in hand with culture‚ and in the Muslim countries this is very apparent. The cultural importance of men over women may have stemmed from religion‚ however it was further recognized when imperialist countries introduced capitalism and class divides. “Islam must combat the wrenching impact of alien forces whose influence in economic‚ political‚ and cultural permutations continues to prevail” (Stowasser 1994‚ 5). Now‚ instead of an agrarian

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    creationism should be able in attainable schools is an absolute affecting and circuitous question. It can be looked at from several acclimatized angles‚ its ascendancy accepting one of them. Admitting the abbreviation of affirmation to abutment the fundamentalist absorption of creationism‚ that in it is not abounding to accreditation its exclusion from the best of attainable schools in the United States. The canon is far added circuitous and complex. One way to abide the catechism is whether or not creationism

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    for a trial to be held. Clarence Darrow would later represent him in the trial against William Jennings Bryan on the prosecution. Inherit the Wind uses the Scopes Trial as a basis for the play by comparing the views of fundamentalists and evolutionists. In the play‚ the fundamentalists include the townspeople‚ Matthew Harrison Brady (William Jennings Bryan)‚ and Reverend Brown. They represent the “backwards” ways of the town of Hillsboro where the play takes place. The evolutionists in the play include

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    Islamic Fundamentalism

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    out‚ not only is the term used as a blanket description of the militant ideology of contemporary Islamic movements‚ but subsuming the various Islamic movements (political‚ social‚ cultural‚ economic and local) under the general rubric of Islamic fundamentalist movements blinds us to the divergencies‚ internal divisions and evolutionary nature of the various groups. It also prevents us from engaging in a dispassionate analysis of the subject. This paper argues for the need to make specific distinctions

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    Summer has ended in Bangladesh‚ but terrorism continues to heat up the country. On October 24‚ a Shia shrine in Dhaka was bombed on the day of Ashura‚ leaving one dead and over a hundred injured. A few weeks earlier‚ Kunio Hoshi‚ an elderly Japanese citizen‚ was gunned down in Rangpur district. His murder came a few days after Cesare Tavella’s‚ an Italian aid worker sprayed with bullets in Dhaka’s diplomatic neighborhood. Police sources reported that five homemade bombs were used to target the

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    Effects of 9/11 on Muslims

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    To What Extent were Muslims Affected by 9/11? On September 11‚ 2001‚ nineteen hijackers took control of four passenger jets departing from U.S. airports. Two of those planes collided with the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York‚ the third plane hit the Pentagon‚ and the remaining plane was redirected and crashed in an empty field. Altogether‚ nearly 3‚000 people died‚ and the blame was immediately placed upon the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. (http://timeline.national911memorial

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    Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi is a thoughtful examination of the Iranian government’s corrupt regime against its own people. During the late 1970s‚ Iran experienced cultural upheaval as the citizens fought to remove the amoral Shah from power (Tedla and Dolan). Since the Shah’s removal‚ Iran has been subject to violence‚ terrorism‚ and extreme ideology. The context with which Persepolis was written helps give readers perspective and insight as to the reasoning that motivates

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    eroded by liberal thinking. The fundamentals included the following beliefs; the divinity of Jesus; meaning he was fully God‚ that God’s ultimate judgement and the existence of heaven and hell and the physical resurrection of Jesus‚ among others. Fundamentalists believed in the doctrine of plenary verbal inspiration‚ this is the understanding that‚ the Bible is the actual word of God to the extent that it was dictated by God‚ word for word‚ to the people who wrote it down. To the fundamentals‚ the Bible

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    understanding of Islamic history‚ has identified a new enemy‚ "a new demon that has replaced the Red menace of the Cold war‚ i.e.‚ radical Islam" (Agha 6). This "radical Islam"‚ a stereotype common to Western thought‚ portrays Muslims as fundamentalists or potential terrorists. Some of these ideas that the Western people have about Islam are due to the mass media of the West. Reporters who cover the Muslim world often know very little details about it. The media then develops a distorted

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