On 4 August 2005, Opposition Leader Mahendra Chaudhry called for more Indo-Fijians, who presently comprise less than one percent of the Military personnel, to be recruited.

Sir Edward Richard George " Ted " Heath, KG, MBE, PC ( 9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005 ) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( 1970 – 74 ) and as Leader of the Conservative Party ( 1965 – 75 ).

Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC ( 27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005 ), was a British Labour politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( 1976 – 79 ) and Leader of the Labour Party ( 1976 – 80 ).

Todd McFarlane is also the cartoonist responsible for the cover art of the albums Ten Thousand Fists, released in September 2005 and Indestructible, released June 2008 by metal band Disturbed, and the art in their single " Land of Confusion ", as well as that of metal band Iced Earth's 1996 Spawn-based concept album The Dark Saga and Korn's third studio album Follow the Leader, which was released in 1998.

* John Anderson ( Australian politician ) ( born 1956 ), Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the National Party of Australia, 1999 – 2005

* Squadron Leader ( 1995 – 2005 )

* Punches ( album ), a 2005 album by World Leader Pretend

Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, PC, QC, ( born 7 July 1941 ) is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005.

Gephardt served as a U. S. Representative from Missouri from January 3, 1977, until January 3, 2005, serving as House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995, and as Minority Leader from 1995 to 2003.

He served as the Lord Privy Seal and the Leader of the House of Commons from the 2005 general election until 5 May 2006, when he was appointed on that day as Minister for Europe.

Furthermore, a confidential letter sent on October 29, 2005 by the Chairman of the Command Headquarters of the Armed Forced in Iran states that the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei has instructed the Command Headquarters to identify people who adhere to the Bahá ' í Faith and to monitor their activities and gather any and all information about the members of the Bahá ' í Faith.

After a significant European Funding grant from the Leader + programme, in 2005, it has grown into a more broadly based cultural celebration.

He was Republican Party ( GOP ) House Majority Leader from 2003 to 2005, when he resigned because of money laundering charges in connection with a campaign finance investigation.

After being indicted on September 28, 2005, DeLay stepped down from his position as Majority Leader.

On September 29, 2005, Hamm announced his intention to retire as Premier and PC Leader.

Afterwards Conservative leader David Cameron mocked Armstrong during an exchange with Tony Blair, saying “ She must be the first Chief Whip in history to put the Prime Minister in the frame for losing a key vote — which is an interesting career move, to say the least .” This was the second time David Cameron had attacked her during Prime Ministers Questions ; on his debut as Leader of the Opposition on 7 December 2005 she was singled out by Cameron when he said " That's the problem with these exchanges-the chief whip on the Labour side shouting like a child.

He was the Leader of the House of Commons from 2003 to 2005 and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007 under Blair, and as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales from 2007 to 2008 under Brown.

He served as Leader of the Ulster Unionist Party ( UUP ; 1995 – 2005 ), was the first First Minister of Northern Ireland ( 1998 – 2002 ), and was a Member of the British Parliament ( 1990 – 2005 ).

For his 2005 television show How To Start Your Own Country, presenter Danny Wallace claimed to be " Leader " of Eel Pie Island after invading the island via the footbridge.

On September 9, 2005, the main passenger terminal was renamed in honour of Robert Stanfield, the former Premier of Nova Scotia and federal Leader of the Official Opposition, with a plaque placed on the public observation floor.

* 1909 – Martin Lings, English Islamic scholar ( d. 2005 )

In September 2005, Hamas was criticized by Islamic Jihad for calling off rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza.

And in 2005 three Christian schoolgirls were beheaded in Poso by Islamic militants.

* In Indonesia, an Islamic penal code proposed in 2005 would have made cohabitation punishable by up to two years in prison.

* Canby, Sheila, Islamic art in detail, US edn., Harvard University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-674-02390-0, ISBN 978-0-674-02390-1, google books

* The 7th Ancient Civilizations in Bulgaria ( The Golden Prehistoric Civilization, Civilization of Thracians and Macedonians, Hellenistic Civilization, Roman Civilization, Byzantine Civilization, Bulgarian Civilization, Islamic Civilization ), by Bozhidar Dimitrov ; Published by " KOM Foundation ," Sofia, 2005 ( 108 p .)

* Islamic Solidarity Games, first held in 2005, for all nations from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

), Image and Meaning in Islamic Art ( London, Altajir Trust, 2005 ), 42 – 60.

In light of its gains in the three 2005 elections and government appointments, the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council became one of Iraq's most powerful political parties and was the largest party in the Iraqi Council of Representatives until the 2010 Iraqi elections, where it lost support due to Nuri Al-Maliki's political party rise.

Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, casts his ballot at a poll station in Baghdad in the January, 2005 election.

To date several galleries have been redesigned, notably, in 2002: the main Silver Gallery, Contemporary ; in 2003: Photography, the main entrance, The Painting Galleries ; in 2004: the tunnel to the subway leading to South Kensington tube station, New signage throughout the museum, architecture, V & A and RIBA reading rooms and stores, metalware, Members ' Room, contemporary glass, the Gilbert Bayes sculpture gallery ; in 2005: portrait miniatures, prints and drawings, displays in Room 117, the garden, sacred silver and stained glass ; in 2006: Central Hall Shop, Islamic Middle East, the new café, sculpture galleries.

The political and social role of University of Tehran in the Iranian domestic arena has continued to be so pronounced that in November 2005 ( to February 2008 ) a senior Islamic scholar became chancellor of the university, replacing Dr. Faraji-dana ( professor of electrical engineering faculty ).

In June 2005 Dow Jones Indexes, New York, and RHB Securities, Kuala Lumpur, teamed up to launch a new " Islamic Malaysia Index "— a collection of 45 stocks representing Malaysian companies that comply with a variety of Sharia-based requirements.

The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World, Cambridge, CUP, 2005 ( Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization ), 298 pp., ISBN 0-521-84226-3

" He was re-elected on June 8, 2001 for a second term and stepped down on August 3, 2005 after serving his maximum two consecutive terms according to the Islamic Republic's constitution.

* Kutty, Ahmad ( 13 / Sep / 2005 ) Islamic Ruling on Waxing Unwanted Hair Retrieved March 29, 2006.

Dawa and the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council are two of the main parties in the religious-Shiite United Iraqi Alliance, which won a plurality of seats in both the provisional January 2005 Iraqi election and the longer-term December 2005 election.

In December 2007, the Canadian Islamic Congress ( CIC ) launched complaints with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, British Columbia Human Rights Commission, and the Ontario Human Rights Commission against Maclean's accusing it of publishing 18 articles between January 2005 and July 2007 that they considered Islamophobic in nature including a column by Mark Steyn titled " The future belongs to Islam.

* Kutty, Ahmad ( 13 / Sep / 2005 ) Islamic Ruling on Waxing Unwanted Hair Retrieved March 29, 2006.

According to the human rights organization Freemuse, Palestinian musicians feared the same was going to happen in the Palestinian territories where Islamic fundamentalists have become increasingly assertive since the militant Hamas group scored political gains in the Palestinian Authority local elections of 2005.

On 8 August 2005, it was reported that the UK Government was considering bringing prosecutions for treason against a number of British Islamic clerics who have publicly spoken positively about acts of terrorism against civilians in Britain, or attacks on British soldiers abroad, including the 7 July London bombings and numerous attacks on troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.