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Turkish schools offer Pakistan a gentler Islam

Sun, 04 May 2008 01:43:31 GMT

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Praying in Pakistan has not been easy for Mesut Kacmaz, a Muslim teacher from Turkey.

He tried the mosque near his house, but it had Israeli and Danish flags painted on the floor for people to step on. The mosque near where he works warned him never to return wearing a tie. Pakistanis everywhere assume he is not Muslim because he has no beard.

"Kill, fight, shoot," Kacmaz said. "This is a misinterpretation of Islam."

But that view is common in Pakistan, a frontier land for the future of Islam, where schools, nourished by Saudi and American money dating back to the 1980s, have spread Islamic radicalism through the poorest parts of society. With a literacy rate of just 50 percent and a public school system near collapse, the country is particularly vulnerable.

Kacmaz (pronounced KATCH-maz) is part of a group of Turkish educators who have come to this battleground with an entirely different vision of Islam.

Tags: pakistan, turkey, islam, education, religion

New Photos Reveal Horrors of Hiroshima [R]

Sat, 03 May 2008 20:23:41 GMT

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University of California, Merced professor Sean Malloy recently unearthed 10 previously-unpublished photographs illustrating the aftermath on the Hiroshima bombing. They are not for the weak of stomach.

"I came across these will research my recent book on the bomb, Atomic Tragedy," he tells DANGER ROOM. "They were found in a cave outside Hiroshima by a U.S. serviceman who was part of the occupation forces. We have no information about who took the photos, what became of him/her, or why the photos ended up in a cave. The serviceman held onto to them in his personal collection until 1998, when he donated them to the Hoover Archives [at Stanford University] with the provision that they not be reproduced until 2008. I included three of these photos in my book, but I wanted to make them all publicly available."

Tags: nuclear, nuclear weapons, japan

Thirteen jaw-dropping science experiments for kids

Sat, 03 May 2008 16:54:17 GMT

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Thirteen jaw-dropping and/or gloriously messy experiments that children can carry out at home

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Turkish schools offer Pakistan a gentler Islam

New Photos Reveal Horrors of Hiroshima [R]

Thirteen jaw-dropping science experiments for kids

Part VII: Experiments for kids p3

Get stuck in!

Magnetic pennies

Can slam

Pull the other one ...

Film tub rockets

Pitch perfect

The triple-egg trick

Up periscope!

Rocket Mouse has liftoff!

Cornflour slimeballs

Ear gongs

Friction factor

Perfect balance

Super soda fountain