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...Bush supporter wore a t-shirt declaring “Islam supports Kerry.” Underneath was the slogan, “Intolerance is a beautiful thing.” Another carried a sign scrawled with the words, “Terrorists for Kerry...
...strictly religious figure, whose authority is recognized and venerated - even as it is, effect, challenged to move in a more radical direction - by Sadr's movement. Sistani is a "Marjah," an object of emulation in the Shiite tradition, whose position is attained through decades of patient learning and Islamic jurisprudence. Sadr is a junior cleric, although his supporters have taken to referring to him as a Hujjat al-Islam, or jurisprudent, the next step up the ladder, although most observers doubt he has completed the requisite studies...
...make such a peace possible and partly because of wider international pressure, but mostly because they terrorize us far more than they do our so-called enemies, Aziz must bring to heel the religious militants who claim to kill in our name and in the name of our religion, Islam. In the past, the army has worked hard to create these militants?it will be Aziz's challenge to see that it works equally hard to disband them...
...gathering of terrorism's elite, and they slipped silently into Pakistan from all over the world in order to attend. From England came Abu Issa al-Hindi, an Indian convert to radical Islam who specializes in surveillance. From an unknown hideout came Adnan el-Shukrijumah, an accomplished Arab Guyanese bombmaker and commercial pilot. And from Queens in New York City came Mohammed Junaid Babar, a Pakistani American who arrived with cash, sleeping bags, ponchos, waterproof socks and other supplies for the mountain-bound jihadis...
...Pakistan, which she has visited once, when she was 15: "I couldn't wait to get back to Norway, where people stop at red lights." Rehman's most controversial stunt came during a television appearance in April with Mullah Krekar, founder of the Kurdish militant group Ansar al-Islam, which has been accused of links with al-Qaeda. Rehman asked if Krekar would submit to a "fundamentalist test." When he agreed, she lifted him off the ground. Krekar was outraged, grabbed a microphone and sputtered: "She is showing contempt for me." Rehman merely observed that...