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...unrest, had already attracted controversy because of a Nigerian Islamic court's recent decision to sentence an unmarried mother to death by stoning for adultery. Nigerian Muslims called the contest indecent and said it promoted promiscuity. When an article in local newspaper This Day suggested that the Prophet Muhammad would have chosen a wife from among the pageant's contestants, things turned ugly. Muslims in the northern city of Kaduna rioted, burning the newspaper's local office and destroying at least four churches; violence spread to Abuja. "The entire Muslim world condemns this misguided, provocative and most dangerous publication," says...
...their countries, killing their leaders, and converting them to Christianity.” She has said that “not all Muslims may be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” Referring to the leading prophet of Islam, she states, “To say that Muhammad was a demon-possessed pedophile is not an attack. It’s a fact...
When could an attack come? Omar Bakri Muhammad, the London-based leader of the radical Muslim al-Muhajiroun youth movement, points to the month of Ramadan, which began Nov. 6. It is "the month of jihad," he told TIME, when "the inspiration of fighting against occupiers and invaders will be very high. That is why I would not be surprised if al-Qaeda strikes in the month of Ramadan." Scared yet? --By Bruce Crumley/Paris, Helen Gibson/London and Steve Zwick/Cologne
...whereabouts of al-Harethi, and U.S. officials say Yemen gave its permission for the strike. But the action infuriated opponents of the government, who called it a violation of sovereignty. There may be more to come. U.S. counterterror operatives in Yemen are already hunting their next target: Muhammad al-Hamati, a bakery owner who, a U.S. official says, helped al-Harethi with logistics for the Cole bombing. --By Azadeh Moaveni. With reporting by Scott MacLeod/Cairo and Elaine Shannon and Mark Thompson/Washington
...apprehended in Hong Kong were two Pakistanis from Peshawar, Sayed Mustajab Shah, 54, and Muhammad Abid Afridi, 29, and Ilyas Ali, 55, a U.S. passport holder who lived in Minnesota from 1974 through 2001. In April, Ali allegedly started negotiations in San Diego to sell hashish and heroin to a buyer, who happened to be an undercover FBI agent. Apparently he then got on a plane to Pakistan to gather his two friends. On Sept. 15, say court papers, the threesome flew from Karachi to Hong Kong and checked into three rooms at the marble-clad Conrad Hotel, where...