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Article: Coming convulsion.(NATION)(INSIDE THE BELTWAY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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Byline: John McCaslin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Coming convulsion
Inside the Beltway has intercepted a telegram from the American consulate's office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - addressed to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, CIA Director George Tenet and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice - identifying a "troubling streak of intolerance" that has emerged among certain Muslims in the Arab world, and warning of a possible "convulsion" of the Islamic faith.
"The vast majority of Muslims are accepting of persons of different faiths," says the telegram, dated April 2002. "However, in the wake of September 11, ...