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Article: A Bedouin state of mind: centuries ago, two great religious scholars understood the irrationality and evil that fuels today's terrorists. Perhaps better than we do.(RELIGION)
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- Western Standard
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- August 14, 2006
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ANNABA, ALGERIA--The port city of Annaba is on the coast of Algeria, near the eastern border with Tunisia. I set out for Annaba with a copy of St. Augustine's Confessions, hoping to understand something of Algeria's present--and of the Arab-Muslim world of which it is a part--by making a journey into its past.
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The first sight for any traveller approaching Annaba by land or sea is the Cathedral of St. Augustine on top of a hill overlooking the Mediterranean. It was built in the late 19th century by the French, above the ruins of the ancient Roman town still visible after some 2,000 years. Annaba was founded by Phoenicians in the ...