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...such preacher, Abu Hamza al-Masri, arrived in 1981, having left one eye and both hands in Afghanistan. He was granted British citizenship in 1985, and his mosque in Finsbury Park, tucked among Victorian row houses one tube stop from Arsenal's soccer stadium, has become famous worldwide for preaching jihad. Moussaoui, the Courtailler brothers and Beghal all attended prayers there. Beghal is said also to be a follower of Abu Qatada, a radical who preached jihad from a community center on Baker Street and whose bank account, allegedly with $270,000 in it, was frozen by the Bank...
...disc, produced by Danny Goldberg for Artemis Records, contains recordings of West speaking in his trademark style, deemed “preacher-like” by some, over a background of blues, jazz, and rap tracks...
...article on TIME's choice of T.D. Jakes as America's Best Preacher focused too much on Jakes' style rather than his substance, which is what really counts [AMERICA'S BEST, Sept. 17]. You failed in your report to portray Jakes as a great teacher, father figure, brother, coach, economic adviser, marriage counselor, mentor, friend and, most important, a brave champion in the battle of spiritual warfare. Jakes helps turn males into men, women into ladies, prisoners into ministers and cultural Christians into God's servants. JOHN DAVID GARZA Dallas...
...militia that dubbed itself the Taliban, Pashtu for Islamic students, emerged in 1994 from the rural southern hinterlands of Afghanistan, under the guidance of the reclusive onetime village preacher Mullah Mohammed Omar. Fed by recruits from conservative religious schools across the border in Pakistan attended by destitute refugees from the 1979-89 war against the Soviet invasion, the Taliban won military and political support from Pakistan. It rose to power by promising peace and order for a country ravaged by corruption and civil war and the prospect of re-establishing traditional majority-Pashtun dominance...
...AIDS CURES FAGS” and “FAGS BURN IN HELL.” He says his church has held more than 21,300 pickets all across the country, most famously at the funeral of Matthew Shepard. Phelps is a 71-year-old Calvinist Bible preacher who believes in predestination, the concept that only God’s Elect are saved. “It’s a lie that god loves you,” Phelps proclaims, “He hates...