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Mohammad Tantawi—the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mosque in Egypt and one of Sunni Islam’s highest authorities—has publicly stated that Muslim women must obey the laws of the non-Muslim countries in which they live, even if it means not wearing the headscarf. Of course, French Muslims must obey French law, but Tantawi is missing the point of the public uproar. What if they protest the ban not as Muslims living in a non-Muslim country, but as French men and women rejecting a law that infringes upon the freedoms...
...Coalition Provisional Authority with a wealth of intelligence. The documents have helped expose the identities of several key resistance leaders, a senior Iraqi source tells TIME. And clues culled from the papers led U.S. forces last week to an alleged ring of Islamic terrorists operating out of the Sunni mosque Ibn Taimiya in Baghdad. The raid netted at least 32 suspected militants, including 26 who were wanted by the coalition. U.S. forces also detained the mosque's imam, Mahdi al-Sumaydah, who is believed to be a prominent resistance leader. "This was a major operations center for attacks against Iraqis...
...heads north along the Tigris River, which bounds the neighborhood on two sides. Of the 88 sectors in Baghdad, Adhamiya is rated by the U.S. command among the six most dangerous for coalition forces. The 1.2sq.-mi. area is home to 400,000 people, most of them Sunni Muslims. The anti-American graffiti that blankets the walls of neighborhood buildings attests to the strong resistance to the U.S. presence here. Spray-painted in Arabic and English, it reads, DOWN USA. LONG LIVE SADDAM. YES TO MARTYRDOM FOR THE SAKE OF IRAQ. "The majority of people seem all right," Whiteside...
...SUNNI TRIANGLE The area around the Iraqi cities of Baghdad, Tikrit and Fallujah--where U.S. forces have met the most resistance--has become as familiar as the Tristate area...
...extremists across the Islamic world are now whispering that there is a secret regional alliance between the Shi'ites and the U.S. Furthermore, the U.S. doesn't want to appear to be letting the Shi'ites set the ground rules--especially since delicate negotiations are under way with prominent Sunni tribal leaders to secure their support for the caucus process, in return for generous reconstruction funds...