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...Arabic and, as in Saudi schools, the curriculum is based on Wahhabism, a rigorous brand of Islam that accepts the Koran as literal truth. Concerns about the academy peaked in early October when Panorama, a popular tele-vision program, aired a video purporting to show the school's Imam and teacher, Anas Bayram, telling parents how to train their children in spear throwing, swimming and horseback riding in order to prepare for jihad. Bayram denies that he was urging violence, saying he only meant to encourage parents to ensure that their children are physically fit. The Panorama documentary contained some...
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...
...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...