Karima Bennoune: The side of terrorism that doesn't make headlines

Karima Bennoune shares four powerful stories of real people fighting against fundamentalism in their own communities — refusing to allow the faith they love to become a tool for crime, attacks...

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Could I protect my fatherfrom the Armed Islamic Group with a paring knife?That was the question I facedone Tuesday morning in June of 1993,when I was a law student.I woke up early that morningin Dad's apartmenton the outskirts of Algiers, Algeria,to an unrelenting pounding on the front door.It was a season as described by a local paperwhen every Tuesday a scholar fellto the bullets of fundamentalist assassins.My father's university teaching of Darwinhad already provoked a classroom visitfrom the head of the so-called Islamic Salvation Front,who denounced Dad as an advocate of biologismbefore Dad had ejected the man,and now whoever was outsidewould neither identify himself nor go away.So my father tried to get the police on the phone,but perhaps terr...