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DIED. Ahmed Abu Laban, 60, prominent religious leader in Denmark who last year galvanized fellow Muslims around the world to protest newspaper cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad; of lung cancer; in Copenhagen. Saying he was humiliated by the cartoons--one of which showed Muhammad with a bomb in his turban--Laban helped fuel rage that many Danes blamed for sparking anti-Danish violence in the Middle East...
...contest pits the Grand Mosque of Paris and the Union of Islamic Organizations of France against the editors of the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo, in a lawsuit citing anti-racism laws over the magazine's February 2006 publication of those Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that caused a global uproar. The complaint describes the decision to reprint the drawings as "born of a simplistic Islamophobia and purely commercial interests"; as having "insulted people on the basis of religion"; and as a "provocation aimed against the Islamic community...
...Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Paris Mosque, counters that French and European Muslims have no problem with social and even religious ribbing, but that the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, considered blasphemous by Muslims, were then exacerbated by associating him with terrorism. "This is an affair about caricatures that incite racism," Boubakeur argues. That's a valid point if one ignores past caricatures by Charlie Hebdo and others satirically linking other religions with violent, murderous, or simply intolerant acts...
Imam Ali Hussein died 1327 years ago, but for the Shi'ite Muslim faithful in Kabul - and everywhere else - it might as well have been yesterday. There is a vivid intensity to their mourning of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad with black banners, dirges, funereal marches and somber sermons in mosques - and also by ritual bloodletting and physical mortification. Every year, during the festival of Ashura, Shi'ites symbolically punish themselves for their failure to rally to their imam at the Battle of Karbala and save him from his enemies in a conflict that marked the beginning...
...earn enough for early retirement. A coup, with soldiers taking the reigns of power, would end that because the U.N. doesn't like to use troops from a military dictatorship. Many newspapers and civil-society groups have called for a new party to be formed by local hero Muhammad Yunus, who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize for his pioneering work in microcredit. But though the affable economist has occasionally commented on his country's crisis-it is important that parties field "clean candidates," he said in December-he seems reluctant to enter politics...