In response to:
Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave from the June 12, 2008 issue
In Ahmed Rashid’s “Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave” [NYR, June 12], it should have been made clear that the “greater jihad,” referred to in the first paragraph of his piece, is the struggle to become a better human being and the “lesser jihad” is to fight for Islam and self-defense.
In Harold W. Attridge’s article about the Gospel of Judas [NYR, May 1], Jean Donovan, martyred in El Salvador in 1980 with Sisters Dorothy Kazel, Maura Clarke, and Ita Ford, was not herself a nun but a lay volunteer.
This Issue
August 14, 2008
The Devastation of Iraq’s Past
Burdock
E.M. Forster, Middle Manager
This Issue
August 14, 2008
The Devastation of Iraq’s Past
Burdock
E.M. Forster, Middle Manager
