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...long ago the most controversial thing about beauty pageants was the swimsuit segment. As the latest Miss World contest proved, those simple times are over. Hundreds died in riots last month after a Nigerian journalist suggested the Prophet Muhammad might have approved of the pageant and maybe even found a wife among the contestants. The pageant was moved from Nigeria to London, and on Saturday Miss Turkey, Azra Akin, ended the whole nightmare by walking away with the tiara and $150,000 prize. Pageant co-host Sean Kanan, an actor from the U.S. soap The Bold and the Beautiful, made...
...searches carried out across Germany that morning, as police raided homes and offices belonging to members of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party), a 50-year-old pan-Islamic political organization that seeks to establish a modern version of the caliphate that ruled parts of the Arab world from Muhammad's death until 1924, when Turkey's Kemal Atatürk officially laid it to rest. The police visited Assem, Hizb ut-Tahrir's "representative member" in Germany, as part of their investigation of the group. They took away documents and computer discs, but Assem was not arrested. German authorities...
...been training. His regimen includes studying a chart of verb conjugations in his promoter's office in Hamburg, where the brothers have lived since 1996. But for all his bookish credentials and his affable, almost shy demeanor, Klitschko is also quite the performer. Like his childhood idol Muhammad Ali - whose star-studded birthday party he attended in January - Klitschko revels in showmanship, appearing at fights wearing Soviet-red Hugo Boss shorts and a malevolent grin. Still, as much as he's enjoying himself, "I don't want to be fighting 10 years from now," he says. "I don't want...
...bugs. The building is believed to be infested with them. NIGERIA Death Sentence Fashion writer Isioma Daniel reportedly fled to the U.S. after the state of Zamfara issued a fatwa (religious edict) telling Muslims to kill her. Daniel wrote a story in the newspaper ThisDay suggesting that the Prophet Muhammad would have approved of the Miss World contest and might have married one of its contestants. Nigeria's supreme Islamic body said that Muslims should ignore the fatwa and the country's federal government said it will not allow the death sentence to be carried out. SRI LANKA Tigers Grow...
...Nigerian debut of the Miss World beauty pageant was already on its way to becoming the Nigerian nightmare when an inflammatory editorial was published last week in a Nigerian paper. Its suggestion that the Prophet Muhammad would have married a Miss World contestant had he seen the contest did not help to ease the tensions swirling around the controversial pageant. Of course no one knew that it would lead to three days of religious rioting and more than 100 deaths, but this result cannot be too surprising...