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...with Khamenei. Still, Ahmadinejad's nationalist statements have bolstered his popularity with many ordinary Iranians. Ahmadinejad's letter to Bush may have been less an invitation to talk than an attempt to appeal to devout Muslims around the world by mimicking the letters sent by the Prophet Muhammad to leaders during the 7th century, exhorting them to return...
...story about Iraqi girls broke my heart. If Islam is truly a religion of justice and humanity, then change must come from the so-called street. There should be outrage in the community that matches the reaction to the Muhammad cartoons--and that outrage should be directed at the perpetrators. DON KANG Speicher, Germany...
...year-old copy of The Gospel of Judas brings to mind a previous discovery of ancient texts. TIME's April 15, 1957, cover story reported on what the delicate, 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls revealed about early Christianity: "Since a Bedouin shepherd boy named Muhammad adh-Dhib ('The Wolf') first stumbled on them just 10 years ago in a cave near Qumran (he had hoped to find buried treasure), the scrolls have stirred up perhaps the most vigorous debate in Christianity since Darwin ... The majority verdict: the scrolls do not shake the foundations of Christianity, but they greatly...
...first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to ever win the Prize.]MM: I don’t know much about political issues in the wider world, but there are women in Pakistan’s history that I respect very much. Fatima Zahra, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, and then Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the founding father of Pakistan [Muhammed Ali Jinnah], who helped him create my country. These two are personalities that inspire me.THC: You mentioned earlier the necessity of an internal drive for change. Could you speak a little bit more about this, and about...
...many Muslims, emulating Muhammad's sirah is a deeply spiritual exercise, designed to make believers feel closer to God. In al-Zarqawi's case, baser instincts may be at work. "People like al-Zarqawi try to portray themselves as very close to the Prophet in order to legitimize their other actions," says al-Fadl. Those who have observed al-Zarqawi at close quarters suggest that this is the logical next step in his evolution as a jihadi. Once a street thug in his hometown of Zarqa, he turned himself into a mujahid, or holy warrior, in Afghanistan, and then...