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...Early reports suggested that the bomber may have been one of Zubaie's own bodyguards. Casualties included al-Zubaie's brother and cousin, a close aide and the imam who had just finished leading the Friday prayers. Al-Maliki himself visited al-Zubaie this afternoon at the American run Ibn Sina hospital inside the Green Zone...
...warns that Aussies have "had enough of [the Muslim community] ... we have become the new communism." Among his recommendations for better integration: take note of the Aussie reverence for firemen and lifeguards and grab a hose or a whistle. "It would be great," Zreika writes, "to see a turbaned imam fighting fires alongside other bushfire volunteers...
...turban, Ali wrote “fw: Cartoon Controversy: Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Interview.” This spurred me to research the Shaykh, an American who converted to Islam after a near-fatal car crash and founded Zaytuna. Mostly unknown in the United States, Yusuf is something of an Imam-rock star. “fw: This Saturday! - ‘Does God Love War?’ With Chris Hedges & Hamza Yusuf – Berkeley, FREE,” Ali entreated.I soon surmised that Ali planned to go on Hajj, his texts becoming increasingly religious. He sent...
...growth over democracy and Islamic ideology. Ahmadinejad also has problems outside Tehran. In the holy city of Qum, south of the capital, Ahmadinejad has offended the grand ayatullahs, who act as the country's spiritual leaders. Most irritating have been his frequent allusions to his connection to the Hidden Imam, the last in a line of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, who Shi'ites believe will return at the end of the world to bring absolute justice to mankind. "Not only does he not talk about the sort of things a President is supposed to talk about," says Atrianfar...
...struggle,” which would have been dull and ineffective, Barrett takes the approach of introducing his audience to genuine American Muslims. Each of the seven chapters describes a person who epitomizes a facet of Muslim life in America. Barrett introduces each one masterfully: his publisher, scholar, imam, feminist, mystic, webmaster, and activist are lifted off the page. Each chapter’s title is a generalized description of one of the characters (such as “The Publisher”), which risks presenting them as archetypes instead of real people. How could a chapter entitled...