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Like other kids the world over, Middle Eastern children have long fantasized about superheroes battling injustice in American cities or fighting beasts in Japan. Five years ago, they got some champions of their own to cheer on when Kuwait-born businessman Naif Al-Mutawa created a new breed of superheroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islamic Superheroes Going Global | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

The 99, a comic-book series based on characters that each personify one of the 99 qualities that the Koran attributes to God, met early resistance in places like Saudi Arabia. Local authorities worried that the series might mock Islam. But after Mutawa guaranteed that he would remain respectful of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islamic Superheroes Going Global | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

Chinese security officials have repeatedly stated that the possibility of a terrorist attack by Xinjiang separatists is the greatest threat to the Olympics. Beijing has invariably pointed to a group called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement as posing the greatest threat of violence, though in recent weeks, Xinjiang officials have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chinese Border Attack Kills 16 | 8/4/2008 | See Source »

In late July, a previously little known group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party released a video claiming it carried out several fatal bombings in China in recent months. The group's self-described military commander, Seyfullah, said on the video that it was responsible for incidents in Shanghai in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chinese Border Attack Kills 16 | 8/4/2008 | See Source »

Wherever their hardware is coming from, Indian Mujahideen's demands are intensely local. It wants the release of members of the Students' Islamic Movement of India, who are suspects in earlier bomb blasts. It criticizes a lawyers' group in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh for failing to take cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domestic Violence | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

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