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...officials and Middle East experts warn that a failure to crush the Mahdi Army will encourage militants across the country to multiply. Other political and ethnic factions have fielded armed militias since the fall of Saddam Hussein, and many wield more authority than Allawi's government. Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni says the Americans who ran Iraq after the invasion are to blame for the unchecked growth of the militias "because they didn't have a clear policy on how to deal with them back when they were easier to put down...
...property in Israel. And according to Israeli press reports, tourist trips by French Jews - some clearly exploring immigration - have skyrocketed in recent years. The exodus reflects a genuine crisis in the French psyche. The national dream - in which membership in the secular republic is always more important than ethnic and religious identity - is waking up to an increasingly atomized reality. "A man like Chirac still lives in a republican world," says novelist Michaël Sebban. "When he's confronted by anti-Semitism all he can do is affirm the republican values of equality and fraternity. But it's like...
...slum neighborhood renamed Sadr City for al-Sadr's father. So did his Arab origins, which had always set the al-Sadr line apart from the Iranian-born Shi'ite ayatullahs like Sistani. For radicals who want to see religious power in the hands of an ethnic Arab, al-Sadr has the right pedigree. Soon he was recruiting Shi'ites into an armed militia, the Mahdi Army, named for the messiah the Shi'ites await. Their stated aim was to drive foreign infidels from the holy cities. But al-Sadr also wanted to deter aggressive Sunni militants from leaving...
...Rehman, 28, was born in Pakistan, but came to Norway when she was 1 year old after her father found a job as a cook in a restaurant. Norway, which has a population of 4.5 million, is home to about 76,000 Muslims. Rehman grew up in the multi-ethnic Oslo neighborhood of Holmlia, where her conservative parents took her to the mosque "but the lessons didn't really stick," she recalls. In 1999, Rehman performed her first stand-up comedy routine at an Oslo sports bar. She got lots of laughs, but her family only dropped their objections when...
...comparison to Havana is more than skin deep. Rumba and salsa are muy caliente here. While each ethnic or social group (ranging from the singer-storyteller caste known as griots to the Fulani and Tuareg tribes) has its own musical tradition, modern Malian music throbs with the influence of Cuba. The result? A heady m?lange that spans infectious Afro-pop, Latin grooves, hip-hop and a mosaic of traditional genres...