Word: imam
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Saudis are wondering how long the imams will stay in line. "When they speak about tolerance, the words don't come out easily," says a senior provincial official. "What we are hearing is only a facade. You can smell the disgust they feel in mouthing their new rhetoric." Sometimes it expresses itself plainly. Says Jordan: "We have noticed lately in influential mosques the imam has condemned terrorism and preached in favor of tolerance, then closed the sermon with 'O God, please destroy the Jews, the infidels and all who support them...
...Iraq today there's every reason to brace for the worst. The country was still reverberating last week from the shock of the attacks on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad and the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf when an explosion rocked the headquarters of the new Iraqi police force in Baghdad, killing one and injuring more than 20. Some Iraqis blamed loyalists of Saddam Hussein for the blast. But the bombing also bolstered fears about the deadly threat posed by small bands of foreign jihadists who have infiltrated the country with the intent of exploiting Iraqi discontent to launch...
...hell, you infidels." IMAM SAMUDRA, mastermind of the Bali bombings, to courtroom spectators?including relatives of people who died in the attack?after being sentenced to death in a court in Bali...
Whoever they turn out to be, the man was right. They had. Among the more than 80 people who died when a car bomb exploded outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf, 120 miles south of Baghdad, was Ayatullah Mohammed Bakir al-Hakim, one of the nation's most senior Shi'ite clerics and the founder of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). He had been leading the Friday prayers in the mosque. The atrocity was the most devastating event since the end of formal hostilities in the Iraq war and counts...
...until 5 p.m. that his death was confirmed, and by then about 80 bodies had been counted. With more than 150 injured, the main hospital in Najaf was straining to cope with the load. "This is a catastrophe for Iraqis," said Hassan al-Naji al-Moussawi, imam of the Mohsen Mosque in Sadr City, Baghdad's Shi'ite-dominated suburb, once known as Saddam City. "And for it to happen at the walls of the Imam Ali shrine, it's as if somebody has reached into the body of Iraq and cut off an organ...