(New York Times) - "Before Sept. 11, it was just an opinion, 'I think we should hate the others,'" said Khaled M. Batarfi, managing editor of the Saudi daily Al Madina. "After Sept. 11, we found out ourselves that some of those thoughts brought actions that hurt us, that put all Muslims on trial." After scores of Saudi religious scholars and academics issued a manifesto this spring suggesting that Muslims might find common ground with the West, they were subjected to withering rebuke by those who accept the Wahhabi notion that Islam thrives on hostility toward infidels.
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