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<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Letter to America (Osama bin Laden)|2=[[File:Osama bin Laden.jpg|300px|link=Letter to America - Osama bin Laden]]|3=The letter to America is a 4,000-word document written by Osama bin Laden in 2002. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic on a Saudi Arabian website, and has since been translated and posted on Islamic websites run from the United Kingdom.
The letter lists seven demands. The first demand is that Americans convert to Islam, "the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand," "the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme". ([[Letter to America - Osama bin Laden|''read more'']])}}</option>





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Islam and Freedom of Speech
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On the 30th of November 2007, as fifty-four year-old British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons appealed for non-Muslim tolerance towards Muslims, ten thousand Muslim protesters took to the streets of Sudan, many waving swords, machetes, and clubs, demanding her execution. During the march, protesters chanted "Shame, shame on the UK", "No tolerance: execution", "Kill her, kill her by firing squad", Western journalists were harassed, and newspapers bearing her photographs were burnt. Her only crime was allowing her class of 7-year-old primary school pupils, at Unity High School in Khartoumto, to name a teddy bear 'Muhammad.' In accordance with the Sunnah of the Prophet; blasphemy is punishable by death in Islam. (read more)