SANAA, Yemen - The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about...retaliation from the militants, and even the cleric's father wanted him to stop.But in...him as protection, according to the cleric's brother-in-law, Faysal bin Ali...
...played down a public admonishment by Egypt's most prominent cleric, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb, who warned...relations after the 1979 Islamic Revolution brought rule by Shiite clerics in Iran and Egypt offered refuge to the deposed shah. Ahmadinejad's...
...positioned to make their own voting choices on October 2nd. Western cultural history is crammed full of kings, emperors, clerics, generals, and corporate bosses' use of clever advertising and economic coercion to maintain social control. Indeed, that...
...its Salafi cousins.Already, this dynamic is taking effect. In April, the Muslim Brotherhood committed to giving Salafi clerics authority to certify that Egyptian legislation is consistent with sharia, or Islamic law. And last month, the Muslim Brotherhood...
...Ramadi protest grounds."The shooting shows that the government has become more repressive against the Sunnis," said Sunni cleric Fakhir al-Taie, who was one of at least 20 wounded during the Fallujah melee. "Now we view the government as an enemy to...
...militants backed by Iran and anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that they would violently resist...Baghdad that is the stronghold of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The Shiite cleric with ties to Iran has made opposition to the...
...and why they're unlikely to abandon that pursuit, no matter what we offer in exchange.In the view of Iran's ruling clerics, it is not irrational to see their country as the Muslim world's regional counterweight to U.S. ally Israel, which is...
...Background checks have been conducted on more than 1.8 million volunteers and employees, 166,000 educators, 52,000 clerics and 6,000 men preparing for ordination. We were pleased to be informed by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
...Shahroudi, a hard-line Iranian cleric, rather than to Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani...system of rule by a supreme cleric, while Sistani draws a line...hand Iraq over to Iran's clerics would not just threaten our...
...an enduring understanding with the powerful clergy that dates back to the early years of the last century, under which the clerics' views are heard on what does and does not conform with Islam.What the Saudi clerical establishment has to say is not only...
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