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can guess who might have written this? JK, 25 April 2003 Folks, here is part of an official dispatch; see if you can guess who might have written it: "There is one point about the present situation in Palestine where I think there's been some confusion of thought at home as well as in neighboring Arabic-speaking countries. There are two aspects to it and they should, for the clearer understanding, be rigidly separated. The first, with which we can allow ourselves to sympathize, is the purely Pan Arab one. And, Palestine has centered itself on an unrelenting hostility to the...

The Hardening of Muhammad From Mecca to Medina (By R.E. Burns, Grad. Dip. Islamic Studies) “He was as thirty men” (Hadith Bukhari, Vol 1, Book 5, No. 268) Some Muslims dispute the validity of the Hadith. Their noble Prophet (pbuh) could not have done the things attributed to him and so they must be wrong. (For example in Bukhari, Book 8, 82:794 he ordered that 8 men have their arms and legs cut off and their eyes put out.) But an examination of the Qur'an, especially the chronological translation of Rodwell, shows a change in personality with time. The Psychological...