Nice rag even if it is a bit too politically correct for the average Shi'i:

http://www.islamicamagazine.com/

Ye olde intrepid Islamicist, Karen Armstrong:

But the Pope's good intentions seem far from obvious. Hatred of Islam is so ubiquitous and so deeply rooted in western culture that it brings together people who are usually at daggers drawn. Neither the Danish cartoonists, who published the offensive caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad last February, nor the Christian fundamentalists who have called him a paedophile and a terrorist, would ordinarily make common cause with the Pope; yet on the subject of Islam they are in full agreement.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1874653,00.html

Sunnis versus Shi'i and Americans and "Sunni-US Collaborators":

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070505/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_al_qaida

It is really too bad that Bush didn't succeed. But really, this had to happen sooner or later. Some of us (mostly Shi'i) hoped for later but I guess it had to be sooner.