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  • 10 May 2011
    Episcopalians respond to 'rejoicing' over bin Laden killing

    As some people in the USA and elsewhere took to the streets to celebrate the killing of Osama bin Laden, Episcopalians offered notes of caution and reflection.

  • 5 May 2011
    Archbishop of Canterbury questions killing of Bin Laden

    Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has said that the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US special forces makes him feel "uncomfortable".

  • 5 May 2011
    Celebrating death (even Bin Laden's) demeans our humanity

    So President Obama has decided that he will not release the image of Osama bin Laden’s body. The reason, he says, is that it could be used for propaganda purposes by terrorist organisations. How about the fact that making public the blood-stained and damaged body of a human being is just plain unpleasant, undignified and quite wrong?

  • 4 May 2011
    Nairobi blast survivors meet bin Laden's death with prayer

    The killing of Osama bin Laden has united survivors of the 1998 terrorist attack on the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in a compassionate response.

  • 4 May 2011
    Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders respond on bin Laden

    Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders have responded to the the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden with varying degrees of relief, regret and caution.

  • 3 May 2011
    Al-Qaida post-Bin Laden: what next?

    The Salafi-jihadist movement is losing its recruitment pool in the Arab world, says Murad Batal al-Shishani, an Islamic groups and terrorism issues analyst. Al-Qaida and others' latest strategies look elsewhere, and the death of Osama Bin Laden will not affect these plans.

  • 3 May 2011
    Bin Laden had little, and falling, Muslim support before his death

    In the months leading up to the killing of Osama bin Laden, a survey of Muslim publics around the world found little support for the al-Qaida leader.

  • 3 May 2011
    Sober response by religious and community leaders to bin Laden killing

    Despite scenes of jubilation from the USA following Osama bin Laden's killing, many religious leaders and commentators have reacted soberly.

  • 2 May 2011
    A death blow or shot in the arm for al-Qaida?

    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's call on the Taliban and al-Qaida to renounce violence in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden is a statement from the heart of a world power which feels a renewed sense of vigour in the light of what is being called a "policy success". But it does not strike one as arising from a very thoughtful, perceptive or accurate view of the world.

  • 2 May 2011
    Rejoice? Bin Laden and the cycle of violence

    This morning I woke to an orgy of media-fed delight about a violent death. According to Irenaeus, the second century Bishop of Lugdunum, “the glory of God is a human being fully alive.” According to at least one politician I listened to on the radio, what pleases God most is an enemy brutally murdered.