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October 2004  Volume # 25  Issue 10 
 
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If you could vote in November's presidential election in the United States, who would you cast your ballot for?
  President George W. Bush
  Senator John Kerry
  Ralph Nader
  Write-in candidate

 

   et Flash Back
September, 2004
Farida Al-Naqqash
Literary critic, editor-in-chief of Adab wa Naqd magazine, a Tagammua party publication

By  Manal el-Jesri
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Cover Story
The Making of Extremists
A look at how some of the world’s most notorious extremists were raised and at families in denial.
YOU CALL THEM terrorists and murderers, they call them princes and sweethearts. You shake with rage when you hear their names, they shake with tears for the sons they’ve lost. You talk about people who bloodily changed history and turned the world upside down, they talk about boys who would never harm so much as a fly.

By  Azza Khattab - Read more

et Feature et The Watch  
  Let the Whining Begin  Tariq Ramadan
The NDP’s annual convention endorsed broad economic reforms and some political change just days after overhauling the nation’s customs regime, but the opposition is still howling for constitutional amendments

YOU CAN SATISFY all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but never all of the people all of the time. When the

By  Noha El-Hennawy   -  Read more
Banned from the US on grounds he has endorsed terrorism, grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Banna speaks out on reform, moderation and faith

SOME CALL HIM a Muslim Martin Luther. Last April, Time magazine included him among its list of the world’s 100 most influential people of the 21s

By  Rania Al Malky   -   Read more

Heba Qutb
Meet the counselor who’s not afraid to talk about sex for a living.
By Manal el-Jesri
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The Third Pillar
In a society grown callous to the lot of the poor, how many of us are actually giving zakat? Are we doing so the right way? And can we trust governments or Islamic funds to manage the alms we give? A look at the debate over how zakat is used and whether giving it should become a matter of secular law. PLUS: Sheikh Khaled El-Guindy's zakat FAQ.
By Hadia Mostafa
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Far and Away
Muslims in Sri Lanka recall exiled Egyptian revolutionary Ahmed Orabi, who 120 years ago affirmed their identity and helped lay the foundation of their political presence
By Cam McGrath
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