Op-Ed
Wednesday, September 19, 2001  
 

Though the police unravelled the Dawood link to the Mumbai bomb blasts within 10 days, he stays a free man, reports Smruti Koppikar.
Good times, bad times for cartoons
  When times aren’t bad enough, cartoonists complain. ‘‘We’re suffering from good times.
Jihad, no “holy war”
  The Arabic word ‘jihad’ is often translated as ‘‘holy war’’, but a more accurate translation is ‘‘holy struggle’’. Scholars say the term ‘‘holy war’’ was actually coined in Europe during the Crusades to mean a war against the Muslims.
 
 
   
 
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