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The Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it includes within it a substantial body of people—many times more numerous than the agents of Osama bin Ladin—who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the United States and the desire, ultimately, to transform it into a nation living under the strictures of militant Islam. Although not responsible for the atrocities in September, they harbor designs for this country that warrant urgent and serious attention. In June 1991, Siraj Wahaj, a black convert to Islam and the recipient of some of the American Muslim community's...

THE government’s first attempt to tell schools how they should teach religious education will spark controversy by recommending that children should be taught atheism as well as Christianity. The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), which regulates what is taught in schools, is drawing up new guidelines on the teaching of religious education. It intends to recommend a wider curriculum, including the teaching of agnosticism, humanism and atheism alongside Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. “It is very much the intention that young people in the context of religious education should be studying non- religious beliefs,” a spokesman for the QCA said. “There...