| January 26, 2007 | - At the Gulf Cup tournament in Abu Dhabi, Iraqis painted their faces and cheered their national soccer team. “By God, football unites us,” said one woman in the crowd. “I wish we could be like that back home.” The team failed to make the final round.
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Reuters via The Australian
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| November 19, 2006 | - In Hillah, Iraq, a man promising work lured day-laborers into a minivan, then blew it up, killing 22 people. “The ground was covered with the remains of people and blood,” said a laborer, “and survivors ran in all directions.” Thirty people were killed in attacks in Mosul, Baquba, and Baghdad, four American security contractors and an Austrian were kidnapped in Basra, and a deputy health minister was kidnapped in Baghdad. “Where is the government?” yelled a woman in Mashtal, after multiple bombs killed 11 civilians. “Women and children were killed. God is great, God is great.”
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ABC News
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| July 13, 2006 | - A chicken in Kazakhstan laid an egg with the word “Allah” in Arabic on its shell. “We'll keep this egg,” said a farmer, “and we don't think it'll go bad.”
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The Scotsman
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| June 29, 2006 | - A prison inmate in Pakistan awoke to discover a lightbulb in his anus, which surgeons removed several days later. “Thanks Allah,” said the man. “Now I feel comfort.”
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Reuters
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| March 19, 2006 | - "We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more," said Iyad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq. "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."
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BBC News
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| December 12, 2005 | -
Iraq's Victorious Army Group was holding a contest to see who could design the best website to promote their message of jihad. The contest winner will receive Allah's blessings and be allowed to fire three rockets at an American military base.
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The New York Times
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| December 16, 2003 | - Sebaghatullah Mojadeddi, the chairman of Afghanistan's constitutional convention, told women delegates that they should not try to be equal with men, that even God considers a woman to be half the worth of a man.
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New York Times
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| July 7, 2003 | - Resistance to the occupation continued to escalate; in one incident, a man walked up to an American soldier who was waiting in line to buy a drink at Baghdad University, said "Hello, mister," and shot him dead.
A nearby crowd was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar."
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Independent
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| August 27, 2002 | -
Six Jehovah's Witnesses selling Avon door-to-door in the Philippines were abducted by the Muslim guerrilla group Abu Sayyaf, which decapitated two of the victims and left one head in the fruit stall of a public market accompanied by a note reading, “This is what will happen to those who do not believe in Allah.”
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| April 23, 2002 | -
Thousands of Muslim pilgrims were traveling to Fergana, Uzbekistan, to see a miracle lamb born with the image of Mohammad on one side and the name of Allah in Arabic on the other. Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a banned Muslim group, denounced the reverence being paid to the lamb: “We should worship Allah not the animal.”
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| January 23, 2001 | - An Islamic court in Nigeria carried out the public flogging of a teenage girl who was forced to have sex with three men; after receiving her 100 lashes, Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, who gave birth to a daughter last month, thanked Allah for her punishment and walked home to her village.
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