Word: prophetic
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...Copenhagen on Friday, Jan. 1, a Somali man identified by Kenyan police as Mohammed Muhideen Gelle allegedly tried to stab a Danish cartoonist who drew one of the 12 cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked a furor in the Muslim world in 2005. Kenyan police and intelligence sources have revealed that they arrested him last year on terrorism suspicions and then deported him to Denmark, where he has residency. (See the top cartoons...
...international watch list. He did not mention that very few of Kenya's land-border crossings have such access, nor that it may not matter anyhow - the vast majority of Kenya's borders with Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda are unmarked, unfenced and unpatrolled. (Read "The Return of the Prophet's Cartoons...
Pitch: Inspired in part by the life of the Prophet Muhammad, this contemporary novel angered segments of the Muslim community so much that the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against its author in 1989. Despite all the threats, however, Rushdie has spoken at Harvard before...