"The mob was as raucous and noisy as the riot in the streets ... that morning; this time, though, the excitement was being generated by the speech from loudspeakers mounted high up on the Madrasah's walls. It was Friday, the Muslim holy day, and the sermon was being delivered to an enthusiastic crowd .... several thousand people were packed into the university's grounds and the surrounding streets." "..... he's saying ... GOD HIMSELF is going to wipe America away in a deluge of righteousness.... the impassioned declarations boomed out, elicting waves of cheering chants, and dizzying exultation.... The speaker was ... delivering his Friday sermon from somwhere inside the .... Madrasah. That in itself was interesting. The Pakistani government had repeatedly told the West that they had no idea of ....'s wherabouts."
"(he) ... was reminded of films he'd seen of Adolph Hitler delivering a speech to a sea of passionately adoring listeners at Nuremberg. The speech was an assault upon reason itself." (pps. 178-179)
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