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...strict form of the faith, is considered an offshoot of Salafi Islam.) By contrast, most Indonesians, like other Southeast Asian Muslims, had for centuries practiced a far less orthodox faith, incorporating the Hindu, Buddhist and animist traditions that had flourished before Islam arrived in the archipelago in the 12th century. Some 88% of Indonesia's 245 million citizens are Muslim, and the vast majority of those would label themselves as moderate. Indeed, the country was founded in 1945 as a secular state protecting the rights of the nation's non-Muslims, now 30 million strong. But as Indonesia's wealth...
...religious leader, imperial patronage helped make Sunni Islam the dominant sect. Today about 90% of Muslims worldwide are Sunnis. But Shi'ism would always attract some of those who felt oppressed by the empire. Shi'ites continued to venerate the Imams, or the descendants of the Prophet, until the 12th Imam, Mohammed al-Mahdi (the Guided One), who disappeared in the 9th century at the location of the Samarra shrine in Iraq. Mainstream Shi'ites believe that al-Mahdi is mystically hidden and will emerge on an unspecified date to usher in a reign of justice...
...This marks the second consecutive year that Harvard has come just short of winning its 12th national title. Last season, the Crimson was knocked off in the semifinals by Yale before coming back to defeat Princeton in the third-place game. The team has not won the title since...
...North Korea by the Chinese. "They kept us up late," Hill said later. He wasn't the only one losing sleep. His boss, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, phoned him at 4:15 in the morning Washington time to go over final details, checking in with Hill for the 12th time in three days. "He thought he had a tentative agreement," she told reporters Tuesday, "but I called him ... to make sure...
...then-freshman guard Drew Housman, who had not faced so rough a collegiate crowd up to that point. This year, however, Housman is a year older and is coming off the best performance of his career in a Harvard uniform. At Princeton on Friday, he scored 33 points, the 12th highest total in team history, in a 74-68 double-overtime loss and is ready to ride that momentum into tonight’s game...