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...Hizballah condemns this grisly act, which has caused great harm to Islam and to Muslims ..." HIZBALLAH, in a statement responding to the decapitation of American Nicholas Berg. The Lebanese terrorist group went on to complain that the act drew attention away from the abuse of IRAQI prisoners IN U.S. CUSTODY...
...Muslim world rejected this practice of Romans and Persians. Consider for example this story of the early history of Islam. In battle, Ali, Mohamad?s son in law, was about to deliver the death blow to an idolater, Talha. At that moment, Talha?s lower garment fell away and exposed his genitals. Ali averted his face, and spared the man. Mohammad asked him why, and Ali replied the man was nude and asked that the life be spared...
...Most attempts to uncover the roots of Islamic rage are unflattering to Islam and to Muslims. In his 1981 book Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul suggested that anger and dispossession are endemic to Islam and easily spill over into fanaticism. For others, Islamic terrorism is the most extreme expression of an age-old conflict between Islam and the West. In a 1990 essay, Princeton historian Bernard Lewis wrote that Muslim anger against the West "is no less than a clash of civilizations-the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian...
...child-custody dispute, Mayfield represented Jeffrey Battle, one of the so-called Portland Seven, a suspected terrorist cell. Battle pleaded guilty last year to trying to join the Taliban to fight the U.S. in 2001. Some in the cell attended the same mosque as Mayfield, who converted to Islam in 1989 when he married a Muslim, according to his aunt Beth Vanetta of Halstead, Kans. Vanetta calls Mayfield a "fairly devout Muslim" and "not at all volatile ... the last person in the family I would expect to get into any trouble." --By Elaine Shannon and Polly Forster
...Jacksons temporarily in 1975, Randy replaced him; years later, they had a tiff when Jermaine threatened to withdraw from a 2001 reunion concert. People close to the family see Randy as a more stabilizing influence than Jermaine, a Muslim convert who helped bring in members of the Nation of Islam as Michael's security. If nothing else, the change in attorneys overseen by Randy "will slow down" the legal proceedings, says one source. "That's not necessarily a bad thing...