> In message <p05100300b816dde6017c@[192.168.1.100]>, Doug Henwood
> <dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>
>> Two items from today's NYT:
>>
>>> But the ideology, it seems, never sank in. When Taliban soldiers
>>> arrived they smashed every television set they could find. As they
>>> approached his home, Muhammad Asif, a young shopkeeper, rushed his
>>> Sharp 17-inch television and VCR to the backyard, where he buried them.
>>>
>>> Since then, Mr. Asif has dreamed of the day when he would be able to
>>> watch again. That moment arrived today when he unearthed his
>>> television and slipped a weathered copy of "Titanic" into the VCR.
>>
>
> Suspicious that the interviewee is called 'As if!'
>
are you serious? if so: asif is an extremely common muslim name.
--ravi