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...allow Osama bin Laden to define Islam for the world,” he said. There had been uncertainty about whether the event would even take place on Friday, Hankins said. Organizers did not receive permission from the city until a nine-part inspection of the center was completed Thursday afternoon. As congregants streamed into the mosque Friday night, a local volunteer named Adnan Pathan ambled through the crowd collecting alms. With the donation box under his arm, Pathan explained the significance of the center’s opening to local Muslims. “This mosque will...
...three, it was the Clinton meeting that proved the best bet - and not just because of the Tastes of the World cocktail reception at the Sheraton on Thursday evening. As part of his Clinton Climate Initiative, launched in August 2006, the former President has brought together business and philanthropy to generate locally focused efforts to reduce energy use and carbon emissions. While President Bush offered mostly empty rhetoric, on Friday afternoon Clinton reeled off pledge after concrete pledge for his climate initiative: $150 million to harness geothermal energy in Africa, $5 million for the Alliance for Climate Protection...
...Thursday, however, a front-page New York Times story raised many doubts about the veracity of Head's story. Among other things, the family of her supposed fiancé does not believe the relationship ever existed, the story claims. And her supposed employer has no record of her, either, according to the Times...
...Munir Malik, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, said that the court decision was "academic." On Thursday, a group of lawyers lead by Malik submitted nomination papers for their own presidential candidate, former Supreme Court Justice Wajihudin Ahmed. With less than nine days to campaign and a non-existent budget, Ahmed has no chance of actually winning the election, but that is beside the point. Malik intends to bring a new case to the Supreme Court next week charging that Musharraf's candidacy, proscribed by the constitution because he already holds military office, infringes on Ahemd's right...
...Last Thursday, 10,000 civil rights activists from across the country rallied in Jena, La. to protest and commemorate events that occurred in and around the local high school. A series of racially-motivated altercations culminated in a cafeteria brawl in December 2006. The victim, a white student who allegedly taunted the black students with racial slurs, was hospitalized but released a few hours later and attended a party that evening. The defendants, six black minors, were arrested and charged with second-degree murder...