Hundreds of Pakistanis angry at an anti-Islam film have clashed with police in the capital Islamabad, the most violent show of anger in a day that saw smaller demonstrations in Indonesia, Iran and Afghanistan.

REGARDING Fergus Finlay’s article, “Yes we should celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden” (Opinion, May 3), please permit me to make the following observations:

IRELAND’S two main mosques have strongly criticised allegations in leaked cables from the US Embassy in Dublin to Washington.

A Florida pastor said today his church will never burn a Koran, even if a mosque is built near Ground Zero.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, accused of Europe’s worst genocide since the Holocaust, today claimed his people were only defending themselves against Islamic fundamentalists.

An independently written report has said Thailand’s shadowy network of Islamic separatist insurgents carries out much of its recruiting in schools in the country’s deep south, which have become “the battleground for the clash of cultures and ideologies”.

Kosovo has never been a state and its parliament isn’t deemed worthy to do anything very much beyond collecting rubbish.

MORE than 70,000 members of a hardline group held a rally in Indonesia that heard calls for a caliphate — a single Muslim government across the Islamic world.

An al-Qaida umbrella group in Iraq today denied that US troops had captured the highest ranking Iraqi in the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Two years ago, Muslim groups protested when the plot of the hit drama ‘24’ cast Islamic terrorists as the villains who launched a stolen nuclear missile in an attack on America.

A DANISH court yesterday dismissed a defamation lawsuit against a newspaper that first published the Prophet Mohammed cartoons that touched off protests in the Islamic world.

Four suspected Islamic militants went on trial today for their alleged roles in last year’s suicide bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, attacks a prosecutor said were aimed at avenging Muslims’ deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says those who have published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed are guilty of spreading hate.

The widespread prohibition in the Islamic world aganst depicting the Prophet Mohammed springs from a worry that even well-intentioned images could lead to idolatry or show disrespect for a figure Islam considers the model of human perfection.

Iran’s president ordered his commerce minister today to study cancelling all trade contracts with European countries whose newspapers have published caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

“WHY has Jesus Christ so far not succeeded in inducing the world to follow His teachings?” US President Woodrow Wilson of the United States asked in 1919.

Three militant groups warned Iraqis against voting in the January 30 elections, saying that people participating in the “dirty farce” risked attack.

A letter left on the body of a Dutch film-maker murdered in Amsterdam contained death threats against a Dutch politician and was signed by an unknown group, the justice minister said tonight.

THE displaced of Darfur are hard pressed to find space for their dead or enough water for Muslims’ ritual washing of the body.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today called on his people to “terrorise your enemy” as he bitterly marked the 56-year anniversary of Israel’s establishment.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Greece’s muslim minority today in a rare visit that underscored the efforts by both nations to end decades of confrontation and tensions.

THE man who confessed to killing Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn yesterday told a court he did it to protect the country’s Muslim minority from Fortuyn’s anti-immigration policies.

The Pope today delivered one of his most forceful denunciations yet of violence in the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia severed all ties with Afghanistan’s Taliban Government today, accusing it of using its land to harbour terrorists.