The murder of American values in Lebanon
Christian Science Monitor
by Ann Zwicker Kerr
08/14/06
America is murdering the values it taught us,' my former fellow classmate from the American University of Beirut (AUB) cried out when I visited her in Amman this spring. Salma's words echoed the pain my family and I had been living with for 22 years, since two unidentified gunmen assassinated my husband on the campus of the American University of Beirut -- pain that is reinforced with each day of bombing in Lebanon and Israel and underscored by the many recent deaths in Qana and elsewhere, as well as the insubstantial cease-fire. 'Oh, how I miss Malcolm,' Salma said to me, referring to my husband. She was implying that he was an American in a position of influence whom she could trust and who could interpret the Muslim world to the West. 'Islam is so distorted and misunderstood -- it makes me feel more Muslim than I ever felt before'...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0814/p09s01-coop.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Ann Zwicker Kerr
08/14/06
America is murdering the values it taught us,' my former fellow classmate from the American University of Beirut (AUB) cried out when I visited her in Amman this spring. Salma's words echoed the pain my family and I had been living with for 22 years, since two unidentified gunmen assassinated my husband on the campus of the American University of Beirut -- pain that is reinforced with each day of bombing in Lebanon and Israel and underscored by the many recent deaths in Qana and elsewhere, as well as the insubstantial cease-fire. 'Oh, how I miss Malcolm,' Salma said to me, referring to my husband. She was implying that he was an American in a position of influence whom she could trust and who could interpret the Muslim world to the West. 'Islam is so distorted and misunderstood -- it makes me feel more Muslim than I ever felt before'...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0814/p09s01-coop.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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