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The World of Islam

"We Muslims are one family even though we live under different governments and in various regions."

Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran's revolution

"The real force of Islam is the feeling that you belong to a brotherhood with the obligation to serve that brotherhood and thereby serve God."

Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Minister of Petroleum

"Islam judges, Islam protects, Islam urges resistance when there is injustice."

Anwar Gamall, Egyptian university student

Those are only a few of the voices of Islam, as powerful and compelling today as the muezzin's ancient call of...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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