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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...
...should deal with Muslim extremists by “invading 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...
...unlikely to be offered such a choice. - By Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow IRAN Revolution returns Thousands of university students demonstrated in campuses across Iran, demanding political reform and the release of the jailed academic Hashem Aghajari. The history professor was sentenced to death this month for insulting the Prophet and questioning the clergy's interpretation of Islam. But the students believe Aghajari is really being punished for his outspoken views on reform. Iran's hard-line Islamic judiciary has frequently wielded its legal power to crack down on the reform movement. President Mohammed Khatami, himself a reformist, sought to defuse...
...Mahmoud Muhammad Taha for daring to question the Koran. The sages at Al-Azhar University in Egypt had found Taha guilty of apostasy for a thesis he developed in his book, The Second Mission of Islam. Taha argued that the Koran contains two categories of verses: those that the prophet Muhammad recited in Mecca and those recited in Medina. For Taha, the Medina verses, with their emphasis on legal rules, were written in a historical context that no longer exists, so Islam should instead focus on the spiritual and ethical message revealed in Mecca...
...Tareq Oubrou, rector of the Mosquée de Bordeaux, thrash out their often opposing views on the roles of women and individual freedom in Islam. Although non-Muslim readers may be daunted by the quotations and counter-quotations from hadiths (the reported sayings of the Prophet) that fill so much of any Muslim theological discussion, the book provides a fascinating glimpse of how Islamic traditions are faring in a modern, secular society. The book reads like a series of e-mail exchanges, in which Babès and Oubrou put forward their own tightly-argued positions and then respond...