Frictions between Islam and the West often flare up - like when when a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed - or when Muslim girls in Europe went to school wearing veils, or new minarets in Switzerland were banned.

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Dalil Boubakeur, head of the Grand Mosque in Paris, condemned the cartoons "in the strongest possible terms" and expressed surprise that the magazine was running new Mohammed cartoons after its offices were attacked the last time it did so.

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Undeterred, Annan further promoted the Alliance by rushing personally to one of its early meetings, in February 2006 in Qatar, which happened to coincide with riots in the Muslim world over Danish cartoons depicting Mohammed.

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The three Muslim clerics are, respectively, the director of a Jamaica Muslim Center Koranic Memorization School in Queens, the deputy Amir (leader) of Majlis Ash Shura (a group that advocates the repressive theocratic code known as Shari'a Law) and New York University's imam, who forced the NYU administration not to display the Danish editorial cartoons of Mohammed that Islamofascists used to foment violence around the world.

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