Wednesday January 31, 2007
Islam: An unauthorized hourlong walk Tuesday through the bombed compound of a religious cult called Heaven’s Army revealed provocative clues about the group, which was decimated Sunday in a 24-hour U.S. and Iraqi offensive that authorities say left 263 alleged members dead and 210 injured.
Islam: One of Britain’s leading Muslims says he has sleepless nights about the growing radicalisation of the younger Islamic generation and that community leaders have closed their eyes to major problems in their midst.
Islam: Young British Muslims are more likely than their elders to support Shariah law and admire al-Qaida, but three-fifths of 16- to 24-year-olds say they have as much in common with non-Muslims as with Muslims, according to an opinion poll published Monday.
Islam: British opposition leader David Cameron has incurred the wrath of Muslim groups by likening those with extreme Islamic views to the far-right British National Party.
Islam: Lebanon’s top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, has banned bloodletting during Ashoura, even for adults. Clerics in mainly Shiite Iran forbid it as well, saying the practice is un-Islamic because it harms the body.
Islam • Soldiers of Heaven / Supporters of Mahdi: Accounts of the bloody battle near Najaf have produced more questions than answers, raising doubts about Iraqi security forces’ performance and concern over tensions within the majority Shiite community.
Islam: There are growing suspicions in Iraq that the official story of the battle outside Najaf between a messianic Iraqi cult and the Iraqi security forces supported by the US, in which 263 people were killed and 210 wounded, is a fabrication. The heavy casualties may be evidence of an unpremeditated massacre.
Tuesday January 30, 2007
Islam • Soldiers of Heaven / Supporters of Mahdi: In an era beset by war and confusion, a purported messiah rises from the sands of the desert promising to deliver the end of time. On the outskirts of a holy city, he gathers his fighters for the apocalypse. But his plan is betrayed. By dawn, government forces surround the messiah and his followers, killing him and hundreds of others.
Islam • Soldiers of Heaven / Supporters of Mahdi: Women and children with the fighters of the Soldiers of Heaven outside Najaf were believed to be among those killed after coming under sustained fire from warplanes, helicopter gunships and tanks.
Islam: A row has erupted over Muslim-only washrooms at an Australian university that can be accessed only with a secret push-button code.
Hizb ut Tahrir • Islam: The radical Islamists of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) who met in Lakemba to cheer speakers calling for a global Islamic state, which somehow did not include Australia, raised a number of issues.
Monday January 29, 2007
Islam • Soldiers of Heaven / Supporters of Mahdi: The leader of an Iraqi cult who claimed to be the Mahdi, a messiah-like figure in Islam, was killed in a battle on Sunday near Najaf with hundreds of his followers, Iraq’s national security minister said on Monday.
Islam: Isambard Wilkinson in Multan, Pakistan, hears the extraordinary story of an illiterate peasant woman who took on her village as well as the state.
Hizb ut Tahrir • Islam: Prime Minister John Howard and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock have refused to outlaw Hizb ut-Tahrir, whose controversial push to drum up support among Australian Muslims to create an Islamic superstate has sparked outrage from the NSW Government.
Hizb ut Tahrir • Islam: An unlikely alliance of radical Muslims and the Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, has rejected Morris Iemma’s call to ban the Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
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