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                    [ArticleID] => 139132
                    [Title] => Wired
                    [Summary] => For the longest time I avoided the Internet, thinking I was on the verge of information overload without having to worry about e-mail and all that stuff in cyberspace. Being a technophobe, I also avoided cell phones like the plague – until I saw my grade school nieces and nephews getting their own mobile phones and learning textspeak. 

[DatePublished] => 2001-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136389 [Title] => Jihad [Summary] => SAN FRANCISCO — Here are the rules of jihad, direct from the Koran, according to a Muslim cleric:

"Do not kill children. Do not kill women. Do not kill old men. Do not kill old women. Do not kill religious people. Do not cut fruit-bearing trees. Do not poison the well of your enemy."

These verses I got from Hakim Ouansafi, president and chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii, as part of my lessons in Islam 101. I asked him about jihad a day after the United States bombed strategic targets in Afghanistan.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136088 [Title] => Islam 101 [Summary] => HONOLULU — Hakim Ouansafi watches the news on TV and shakes his head as America’s military retaliation starts in Afghanistan.

"I don’t think it’s against Muslims," he tells me. "But I know innocent people died today."

Hakim is a 37-year-old American citizen transported to Hawaii from Morocco. He wears an "aloha" shirt and does not sport a beard. He’s the president and chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii, president of all the mosques here, and he’s hurting.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Summary] => For the longest time I avoided the Internet, thinking I was on the verge of information overload without having to worry about e-mail and all that stuff in cyberspace. Being a technophobe, I also avoided cell phones like the plague – until I saw my grade school nieces and nephews getting their own mobile phones and learning textspeak. 

[DatePublished] => 2001-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136389 [Title] => Jihad [Summary] => SAN FRANCISCO — Here are the rules of jihad, direct from the Koran, according to a Muslim cleric:

"Do not kill children. Do not kill women. Do not kill old men. Do not kill old women. Do not kill religious people. Do not cut fruit-bearing trees. Do not poison the well of your enemy."

These verses I got from Hakim Ouansafi, president and chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii, as part of my lessons in Islam 101. I asked him about jihad a day after the United States bombed strategic targets in Afghanistan.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136088 [Title] => Islam 101 [Summary] => HONOLULU — Hakim Ouansafi watches the news on TV and shakes his head as America’s military retaliation starts in Afghanistan.

"I don’t think it’s against Muslims," he tells me. "But I know innocent people died today."

Hakim is a 37-year-old American citizen transported to Hawaii from Morocco. He wears an "aloha" shirt and does not sport a beard. He’s the president and chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii, president of all the mosques here, and he’s hurting.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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