Word: imam
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...both women and men. Today's reformers are taking smaller but still symbolic actions. Last fall, at Chicago's Muslim Community Center, a 6-ft. partition that had long divided the genders during prayer was lowered 3 ft. after several women protested. That enabled the women to see the imam in front, and center president Mohammed Kaiseruddin says the change has helped women "feel like part of the congregation...
...apparent effort by the pro-Russian Chechen administration to force his surrender. But there are signs of a groundswell of support for the only Chechen President whose election was recognized as legitimate by the international community. "He did not run and he did not surrender, like the Imam Shamil," says one Chechen who fought alongside Maskhadov in the mid-1990s, recalling the legendary 19th century Chechen guerrilla who lived comfortably in Russian exile. "He was a difficult man, hard to read and closed. But we have forgiven him." Kavkaz Chat, a website funded by radical Islamists, had little time...
...Albany Pair Aug. 5, 2004 An imam and a pizza-shop owner were nabbed for allegedly laundering cash they thought was from a terrorist plot Free on bail. Justice said, based on a note found in Iraq, that Imam Yassin Aref, left, was an al-Qaeda leader but later said it had misread brother in Kurdish as commander in Arabic
...thumb as each man is singled out. It isn't clear who the masked man is, perhaps an intelligence source or an informer. Those given the thumbs-up are seated. Others, who get the thumbs-down, are separated and detained. In the meantime, the village mosque is secured. Its imam and congregation are known to be hostile to U.S. forces...
...solidarity with the diehards, who are seen by many Iranians as free-ranging thugs. He was ranting against the U.S., warning that if President George W. Bush dares to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, Tehran will retaliate by striking Israel and U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf. "As Imam Khomeini taught us," he says, "we will respond to force with force...