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A band of 10 al-Qaeda thugs scaled a wall,overpowered guards, and murdered a respected peace activist in front of his wife. AQ, according to reports, has enjoyed a huge resurgence here,and is engaged in kidnapping,murder,and the hijacking of food shipments. Click link for details.

One morning in February 2004 Ladi, her husband, and seven children were doing their daily chores in their home in northern Nigeria when they heard gunshots. The news spread like wildfire: "Fundamentalist Muslims are attacking our village!" Ladi and her household usually attend morning devotions, but that morning they stayed home. "Some people in our village were at the prayer meeting when the attack started and others were at home," Ladi recalls. All the men who attended the prayer meeting were murdered. After the initial gunshots, Ladi saw the attackers sweeping through the village-killing, looting, and burning. She witnessed the...

WASHINGTON - When a believing Muslim is summoned to the United States due to life's circumstances, Saudi Arabian authorities disseminate through a network of major American mosques, like other religious directives, clear ways as to how one should act in his new surroundings. Take, for example, a document signed by the cultural attache at the Saudi embassy in Washington that instructs Muslims arriving in the United States not to initiate a greeting when meeting Christians or Jews, and never to convey good wishes marking a Christian or Jewish holiday. In general, the attache recommends that the Muslim believer avoid friendships...