Bernard Vann WW1 Victoria Cross cleric celebrated

b) The death of Iran s revolutionary cleric, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The only contact that the accused may have is with a cleric or with his lawyer.

Karroubi, too, is handicapped among the young. Many consider him to be an old, out of touch cleric with no feel for their concerns.

Since 29 May, four pro government clerics have been murdered in separate incidents one cleric was beheaded outside his religious school in Paktika province.

The only Church of England cleric to win a Victoria Cross during World War One as a combatant has been celebrated in his hometown 100 years on.

Mr. Khalid Ahmed Al Eleq, a citizen of Saudi Arabia born on 25 December 1974, is a Shia religious cleric usually resident in Tarut, Turkia, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.

About 18,000 civil servants, military leaders and academics have been arrested or suspended from their positions in Turkey, the government believing their loyalties lie with U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom it accuses of masterminding the attempt to overthrow the government.

The UN Security Council has condemned the opposition s recent attack on a mosque in Damascus, which killed a senior pro government Muslim cleric. US President Barack Obama recently expressed concern about Syria becoming an enclave for extremism, because extremists thrive in chaos.

On 1 June, at the memorial service for a cleric who had been assassinated a few days earlier, a suicide bomber detonated a massive charge in a mosque in Kandahar province, killing more than 40 people, including the chief of police of Kabul province.

The 1979 revolution, which ended Iran s monarchical tradition, created a new political order based on Shiite theological foundations and giving absolute ruling power to a Shiite jurist cleric. Throughout Iran s long history, Shiite seminaries exercised great influence on Iranian society and politics, but they had been considered civil institutions.

Ongoing violence in Basra and the fighting between Sunni Awakening Councils and Al Qaida in Iraq demonstrate this. In fact, the current escalation points to an increasing political struggle between the federalist position of Shia Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and the centralist position of Shiite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.

Erdoğan is popular, and, as Prime Minister since 2003, he has been riding a wave of economic success. But he is also a populist, who has steadily tightened his grip on the state and the media, demonizing all critics (including former allies such as the expatriate cleric Fethullah Gülen) in the process.

Abu Bakar Ba asyir is a radical Muslim cleric who was convicted of blessing the original 2002 Bali bombing, and suspected by some of providing much more. His name is on a UN list of terrorists, and undoubtedly Indonesia and the rest of the world would be safer if he were still in prison.

A former member of Iran s parliament, Javad Ettaat, argues that the government is contravening the principles of Islam by using an iron fist against protesters. Mohammad Taghi Khalaji, a cleric and devoted follower of Ayatollah Khomeini, was arrested on January 12 after saying at a Tehran mosque that Iran s leaders should repent for their actions.

Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki will have to manage relations with firebrand Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr and his followers, who can provoke unrest in southern Iraq if they feel under served. In addition, the Kurds will expect to retain a veto over any proposal that might compromise Kurdish autonomy in the northern provinces.

Twenty percent of the foreign fighters were from Libya, 50 percent of those from a single town in Libya, hugely important since prior statistics put that figure at three percent. It also helped to hone in on a figure of rising importance in al Qaeda, Abu Yahya al Libi, a senior cleric in the Libyan Islamic fighting group.

A key source of this unrest is Tahirul Qadri, a Toronto based Muslim cleric who arrived in Lahore in early December. Ten days later, he addressed a mammoth public meeting at the city s Minar e Pakistan grounds, where, a year earlier, the cricketer turned politician Imran Khan had launched what he not very appropriately termed a political tsunami.

Christians blame the Muslim Brotherhood not only for allowing Muslim Egyptians to attack them with impunity, but also for permitting and delivering incendiary anti Christian rhetoric. For example, at an open rally for President Mohamed Morsi last year, the cleric Safwat Hegazy warned that Egyptian Muslims would splash blood on Christians who splash water on Morsi s legitimacy.

According to some press accounts, Abdulazeez felt a sense of failure at his inability to meet America s standard of success, of which money is the primary measure. Though he did not appear deeply religious, he allegedly praised the late Anwar al Awlaki, a US born al Qaeda cleric and an advocate of attacks on hypocritical America, as a model of triumph over failure.

PRINCETON Last month, Faisal bin Ali Jaber traveled from his home in Yemen to Washington, DC, to ask why a United States drone had fired missiles at, and killed, his brother in law, a cleric who had spoken out against Al Qaeda. Also killed in the attack was Jaber s nephew, a policeman who had come to offer protection to his uncle.

Yet, even in Iraq, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, the country s most influential Shia cleric, recently issued a seminal statement proclaiming the need for a civil, not religious state, with equal freedom for all to participate. Sistani also expressed disagreement with those close to Iran who want Shia to go to Syria to fight for Bashar al Assad s regime alongside Hezbollah.

Additionally, according to the information provided by the source, which has remained unchallenged by the Government, the unlawful detention of Mr. Al Tamimi is motivated solely by his being a member of an association defending human rights and by his activities as a human rights defender, while Mr. Al Eleq is a Shia cleric detained for his religious activities and to prevent him from teaching his religion.

The Iranian government had been a major backer of Shiite militia groups, including the Mahdi Army, led by radical cleric Muqtada al Sadr. But the Iranians also had close ties from the beginning with elements of the Shiite led coalition government. In 2008, following Maliki s military operation to clean out militia groups in Basra, Iran s leaders seem to have decided that this two faced strategy had run its course.