PHOENIX: Anti-Islam protesters -- some of them heavily armed -- faced off against religious rights demonstrators outside a US mosque Friday, in a tense but peaceful standoff.

About 200 demonstrators from each group stood outside the mosque in Phoenix, Arizona, where a biker crew had said they would hold a Mohammed cartoon contest.

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