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...allies need to be careful about criticizing Iran's internal political affairs. They must acknowledge that Western forms of democracy don't fit every society. Iran is a deeply Muslim nation, an established Islamic republic, with our own interpretation of democracy based on the holy Koran and on the fatwas of our leaders. So, please, let us be ourselves. Reza Bozorg Isfahan, Iran...
Sistani's background, however, suggests he prefers a different course. Born in Iran to a family of clerics, Sistani started memorizing the Koran at age 5, according to his official biography. In the early 1950s, he moved to the Iraqi city of Najaf, the site of one of the holiest shrines in Shi'ism. He later became a student of Grand Ayatullah Abul Khoei, who would turn out to be Iraq's leading cleric. As Saddam ruthlessly suppressed clerical activism, Khoei advocated "quietism," the belief that the clergy should mainly serve spiritual and social needs, and not focus on matters...
...LOST. By KORAN TEMPO, a leading Indonesian daily newspaper; a libel lawsuit brought by tycoon Tomy Winata over a February 2003 story reporting rumors that Winata planned to open a casino in Central Sulawesi province despite laws against gambling; in Jakarta. The court ruling was seen by media groups as threatening press freedoms that emerged after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998. The newspaper, which was ordered to pay Winata $1 million, said it planned to appeal...
...ambitions, because they are fired not by loyalty to the old regime but by religious zeal. As his charges scan the night skies for U.S. aircraft, Khaled explains that he receives instructions to attack U.S. forces from fundamentalist imams in local mosques, who "take their orders from the Holy Koran." He says, "We are fighting for Iraq and for Islam...
...October, kept himself busy in his Bali jail by penning his marital guide and two other books: The Men Who Influenced Me and My Life and The Jihad Bali Bombing: a Defense, both of which justify his role in the Bali attack and offer up lengthy quotations from the Koran. Twenty Practical Ways is altogether more unexpected: along with advice on how to ensure your wife knows who's boss?if she really gets out of line, a beating is permissible?Mukhlas writes at length about sex, with graphic descriptions of when and how conjugal relations should take place. Even...