(1) It is absolutely necessary that the umma root its security somewhere else than in the ban on free thought.

(2) The Umma party, the biggest northern opposition party, was able to cobble together just under $500,000 to spend centrally on the whole election.

(3) SOUNDBITE (English) Sadiq Al-Mahdi, head of the Umma Party: Self determination is a decision by the people of Sudan to seek voluntary unity.

(4) Osama's Galatea was sculpted, conveniently, out of a love with the ideal of "defence" of the "Umma", the global Islamic community.

(5) It was partly filled by political Islamism, with its dream not merely of a single Arab state but of a united Islamic society or umma, run along the guidelines of Islamic law.

(6) In fact, one has to go back 4,500 years to find the single historical example of a true "water war" – a dispute between the city-states of Lagash and Umma on the Tigris-Euphrates.

(7) In Islamic tradition, they argue, the ambitions of any individual are set aside for the common good of the umma, or community.