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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...
...learning methods through different media. The Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Ariz., used this approach to teach about Jonah last month. One group of students found the relevant Bible verses on the Internet. A second group, using "bang and clang instruments," dramatized the storm that nearly drowned the prophet. And the third made and ate submarine sandwiches in a joking response to the question "What do you think Jonah ate inside the whale...
...caliphate is only now beginning to take hold in the Arab world. Europe won't come around until our example is there to follow." The caliphate would operate under Shari'a law, the system of ethical and legal conduct derived from the Koran and the teachings of the Prophet. Assem says the economic principles of Shari'a would ensure a fairer distribution of wealth. Shari'a prohibits interest payments on loans, for example (see next article), which Hizb ut-Tahrir claims prevents exploitation, while the ban on free-flowing currency would protect countries like Indonesia from the destabilizing effects...
...Iraqi 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...
...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...