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...Your March 5 cover story: As a Sunni Muslim in the U.S., I am often asked to explain the differences and disagreements between the Islamic sects. Your superb analysis has made my job much easier. It is the most balanced, finely nuanced examination of the sectarian divide I have ever read in the mainstream media. Unlike many other non-Muslim commentators, Bobby Ghosh correctly realizes that the root of the fighting in Iraq (and in other parts of the Islamic world) is not religion but politics. The warring parties cloak themselves in religious garb and quote suras to suit their...
...blacks." ("Oh, my God. We're cool!" he jokes, imagining white suburban kids wearing headdresses and saying "What up, Mustafa?") But there's something to the theory--just look at Barack Obama. His biggest problems with bigotry--besides being called "not black enough"--have been insinuations about his Muslim father, rumors that he attended a madrasah, jokes about his middle name (Hussein) and the Freudian confusion of his surname with "Osama" on CNN and in the New York Post...
...Alabama's only Muslim State Congressman, Yusuf Abdus-Salaam cited Obama's Muslim connections as an asset for a world leader. "He would build relationships with the Muslim world, Africa, Asia and Europe...
...greater demand. But Iraqis resist. "It's a major problem for us," says Mattias Sjöberg, a migration officer at the Swedish Migration Board in Stockholm. "We send people to the north or down south, but in the end many Iraqis end up in Stockholm, where there is a [Muslim] community...
...Though the protests triggered by the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri led to a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, the country's troubles have continued unabated. Siniora had to endure last summer's devastating war in Lebanon between Israel and the Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shi'a Muslim Hizballah group. Soon after the hostilities ended, Hizballah and its allies staged massive protests demanding that Siniora's government resign. Political killings are commonplace, including the murder of one of Siniora's ministers. In an interview with TIME's Scott MacLeod and Nicholas Blanford, the Prime Minister explained...